{"id":62593,"date":"2022-04-21T08:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=62593"},"modified":"2022-04-21T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:16:26","slug":"coming-soon-the-mile-end-road-economists-prescription-for-getting-out-of-the-recession-thats-coming-out-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/04\/21\/coming-soon-the-mile-end-road-economists-prescription-for-getting-out-of-the-recession-thats-coming-out-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon &#8211; the Mile End Road Economists&#8217; prescription for getting out of the recession that&#8217;s coming out way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/04\/21\/out-this-morning-the-paperback-edition-of-money-for-nothing-and-my-tweets-for-free\/\">announced one publishing venture<\/a> this morning, I also note that Danny Blanchflower <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/d_blanchflower\/status\/1516878263137808389?s=27&amp;t=G4d_7VJ37N8fuFFopiZDiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has spilled the beans on another<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-21-at-08.06.02-550x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-21-at-08.06.02-550x275.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-21-at-08.06.02-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-21-at-08.06.02-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-21-at-08.06.02.png 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Danny and I describe ourselves as the Mile End Road economists because the Mile End Road is the road out of the City of London towards the East - to the point where the Peasant's Revolt reached its climax. Our view is from beyond the City walls, seeking to promote economic policies for the well-being of those who do not enjoy the privileges of those within them.<\/p>\n<p>Fed up with the fact that all major political parties still seem to think it more important that they balance the government's books instead of worrying about the well-being of people in this country, we suggested to The Mirror that they might like to publish an article suggesting that there was an alternative agenda that could be pursued.<\/p>\n<p>It's now been accepted by the editor - and we expect it to be out soon.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is simple: we want to change the terms of debate and put people and not balancing government finance at the heart of the political economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having announced one publishing venture this morning, I also note that Danny Blanchflower has spilled the beans on another. Danny and I describe ourselves as<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/04\/21\/coming-soon-the-mile-end-road-economists-prescription-for-getting-out-of-the-recession-thats-coming-out-way\/\"><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":[35,16,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-mile-end-road-economists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62593","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=62593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}