From Promoting Economic Pluralism
Gunnar Myrdal shared his Nobel Prize with an arch rival. Meanwhile his Nobel Prize-winning wife enjoyed less recognition. André Pedersen Ystehede and Stefan Kesting tell the story of a quest for peace, …
A man and his wife Read More
Peter Manley questions the single number basis for claims that absolute poverty is on the wane. On 19 January, 2019 Bill Gates retweeted an infographic from Our World in Data — …
Think of a number Read More
It’s impossible to avoid misjudgements in life or to get all one’s predictions right. But should economists get caught out quite so often. Nicholas Gruen looks at Paul Krugman’s recent …
Paul Krugman’s incredible invisibility trick Read More
In the centennial year of the RAF, Churchill’s words attesting to the valiance of Britain’s fighter pilots have a less chest-swelling relevance to wealth in the UK. Tom Burgess writes …
By so many, to so few Read More
Our economic system still fails to allocate enough funds to strategic investments such as infrastructure, industry and education. Alexander Tziamalis tells how our times call for important economic and policy …
What do we need more of? Read More
The tightened belt is still in fashion but it’s a style that is transparently thin says Geoff Tily. For years the logic of austerity has governed UK economic policy. In …
Austerity stripped bare Read More
The cost of the UK’s inadequate income support is huge. Paul Nicolson writes. The UK has never been generous with its benefits system. In 2008, Tim Harford of the Financial …
Enough is enough Read More
The bloated value of your house(s) is an unearned windfall and a expropriation from others. Think depriving the NHS or poor kids. Yeah, that bad! I know you didn’t plan …
Your house is the rotten heart of the inequality engine Read More
Baker: his message struggles to be heard because a lot of money goes into calling the other tune. Dean Baker explains how calls for a new type of market – …
He who pays the piper Read More
A greater role in the economy for the many can be more than fine words says Stewart Lansley. In the UK the Prime minister, Theresa May has repeatedly pledged to …
The people’s stake: a new way to tackle inequality Read More