{"id":21018,"date":"2013-05-29T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21018"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:32:05","slug":"the-oecd-an-exercise-in-idealism-over-indifference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/29\/the-oecd-an-exercise-in-idealism-over-indifference\/","title":{"rendered":"The OECD: an exercise in idealism over indifference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> One day someone should set these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2013\/may\/29\/oecd-uk-economic-growth-forecasts#ixzz2UhxldnNc\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">two paragraphs from the Guardian<\/a> today as an exam question and ask how they explain the indifferennce to human suffering at the hands of idealism that typifies the crisis of 2008 - 2013:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The west&#39;s leading economic thinktank yesterday backed George Osborne&#39;s spending cuts as Brussels conceded that half a dozen debt-ridden EU countries should be given up to two extra years to reduce their budget overspends.<\/p>\n<p>In its half-yearly forecast, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said the UK was on the right path to a more balanced budget, despite warning that cuts and low consumer and business confidence would put a brake on growth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> To describe the OECD&#39;s approach as economically illiterate is just too kind to them, precisely because concern for human well being would appear to be beyond them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day someone should set these two paragraphs from the Guardian today as an exam question and ask how they explain the indifferennce to human<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/29\/the-oecd-an-exercise-in-idealism-over-indifference\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}