Eomics

Economics without the con

Showing posts with label austerity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label austerity. Show all posts
Monday, 16 December 2019

Not so much a poverty problem but a benefits problem

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The context This is a true story. Some years ago a Polish builder working in the UK suffered an accident at work in which his right hand ...
Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Austerity matters

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I happened to dip into a TV programme the other day that looked at the life of a school over the course of an academic year ( here for a...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2018

UK fiscal policy: The Augustinian budget

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The death of fiscal austerity has been proclaimed in the UK following Chancellor Hammond’s 2019 budget to parliament in which he managed to ...
Wednesday, 30 May 2018

UK austerity: An American view

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The New York Times’ UK correspondent, Peter Goodman, recently published a piece which took a close look at the impact of austerity on the ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

I, Franz Kafka

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For those of you looking for a feelgood film, the works of British filmmaker Ken Loach would not be high on anybody’s list. Loach is a reno...
Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Austerity: A local government perspective

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Austerity has been very much in the UK public eye over recent weeks. It was a major topic during the election campaign but the tragic fire a...
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Peter Dixon
This blog intends to take some of the con out of economics. As a macroeconomist working in the financial services industry, with many years of experience looking at markets and the economic conjuncture, I realise that economics is (as they say about football) often a game of opinions. These are mine.
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