The FT has just reported: Interserve, one of the biggest suppliers of government services, has confirmed that it has reached an outline agreement that hands
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Should Labour be promoting boom and bust?
I can well recall a guy I knew at university. Jock was a leading spokesperson for the gay movement in union debate at the time.
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The political economy of Labour’s fiscal rule
I could do a blow by blow account of the exchanges on Twitter between Jonathan Portes, Simon Wren-Lewis and me concerning Labour’s Fiscal rule last
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Labour’s fiscal rule is Osbornomics
The debate on Twitter between Simon Wren-Lewis, Jonathan Portes and me on Labour’s fiscal rule was resumed last night, and continued long after I’d dropped
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The troublemakers are bringing up the rear
For the umpteenth year (I think it goes back to about 2006, with maybe an off break on the way) I have appeared in this year’s
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Fisking the Portes / Wren-Lewis fiscal credibility rule
I tried to engage with Simon Wren-Lewis and Jonathan Portes on twitter yesterday with regard to the questions I had raised on Simon’s tweets to
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Pollution caps and modern monetary theory
Rupert Read is a philosopher at the University of East Anglia. He is a prominent Green Party campaigner and chair if the Greenhouse think tank.
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What if the experts are right?
March 29 is looming. It’s a Friday in case you were not aware. I suspect there will be Brexit parties. Or wakes. And for the
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A challenge to Simon Wren-Lewis on modern monetary theory and Labour’s fiscal credibility rule
Simon Wren-Lewis made an interesting claim yesterday in three tweets: This is, of course, a response to the debate on MMT and the Labour Party
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