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Simon Wren Lewis Is Confused On Austerity
Or perhaps more accurately, he’s being confusing to us about austerity. What he wants to tell us is…
To Explain Why Expansionary Austerity Works
The current mantra is that austerity never does work. That the very idea of expansionary austerity is simply…
NEF – Somewhere Between Ignorant And Insane
It was Giles Wilkes who pointed out that the New Economics Foundation is really Not Economics Frankly. A…
Northern Cities Lose Under Austerity – Because They Gained Under Brown
The Centre for Cities wants to tell us all that the Northern cities have been losing out under…
An Insight Into Progressive Economics
A basic contention of reality connected economists is that higher minimum wages will lead to fewer jobs on…
An Interesting Question For Owen Jones – What Damn Austerity?
Owen Jones tells us that all of this stealing from the mouths of babes and sucklings is the…
We’ve Not Got Any Austerity So Why Raise Taxes To End It?
The public conversation is labouring under a misapprehension. Or if you prefer, the b’stards are lying. We’ve not…
This Is The Time For Budget Surpluses, Not Relaxing Austerity – Why Keynesianism Doesn’t Work
We’re told that government borrowing is falling, the deficit closing. This therefore means that it’s possible to relax…
If Higher Taxes Are Necessary To Fund Government Then There’s No Austerity, Is There?
The IFS tells us that higher taxes will be necessary if we’re to end this unceasing austerity the…
Greece’s Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Could Have Worked – Only Without The Euro
It’s rather important that we get this little bit of economics correct. Greece is, as we all know,…