These graphs all come from the Guardian this morning. They explain populism, even though there are flaws in the Gini coefficient methodology which tends to
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I read the opinion polls and despair. How can 34% of people in this country think voting for Nigel Farage is an answer to their
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I share this from The Observer, who published it yesterday. As co-creator of the Green New Deal I claim the right to do so: The
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An old friend wrote to me this morning, and said: I increasingly worry less and less about politics and politicians, and what they decide, as
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As the FT notes this morning: Buy-to-let landlords in London who sold up in 2018 made an average gain of £248,000, underscoring the growth of
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Joris Tieleman, a PhD Candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, writing in The Conversation has noted that: Economic thinking governs much of our world. But the discipline’s
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This is the video of Dr Tim Rideout’s talk on why the six tests for a Scottish currency proposed by the Growth Commission have to
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I am far from alone at being horrified by an article on the front page of The Times this morning, which said this (and I
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One part of my morning today will be to give a seminar on modern monetary theory. It’s based on this material, which I wrote last
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