Showing posts with label economic growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economic growth. Show all posts
3 February 2014

A Common European Home

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Cameron's meeting with Hollande last week underlined again our isolation from the central European debates, while last month'...
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28 September 2013

How Public is Public Money?

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Of the many deceitful slogans which the Conservatives used when they came to power the 'bonfire of the quangos' has perhaps had t...
7 August 2013

How is the Chancellor Engineering a Pre-Election Boom?

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After several years of dire economic news, suddenly, just about the time when parliament went into recess, the stories about the British eco...
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7 December 2012

Life Beyond Growth: Join the Evolution

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I have been puzzling over why the Office for Budget Responsibility, which was only established to give prudent and honest advice about ...
26 July 2012

Green House Launches Post Growth Project

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The growth figures released yesterday were shocking. They demonstrate clearly that Osborne is mistaken in his view of how an economy works, ...
29 May 2012

Austerity Breeds Outrage

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Two reports came out on 21st May which was also, incidentally, my birthday. The first was the report of the Environmental Audit Committee...
7 February 2012

Stop Digging

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Although we seem to be living in an era of forgetfulness when it comes to the insights of John Maynard Keynes, to my mind we should characte...
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28 May 2011

Less Osborne More Hobsbawm*

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Advocates of a market view of the economy and proponents of further and faster globalisation both tend to seek inspiration from the work of ...
5 April 2011

Elite's Marginal Productivity Challenged by Nobel Renegade

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In spite of the fact that he is clearly right, and that he is in the sort of position where holding critical views could have some impact, I...
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4 June 2010

The Ideology of the Cancer Cell

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It is hard to question the prevailing view that we are on the brink of an even more serious economic collapse than the one we squeaked throu...
28 January 2010

The Human Firm

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The fanfare of publicity surrounding the announcement that the UK had experienced - hold your breath! - 0.1% of growth during the last three...
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4 January 2010

Hope Dawns in Disagreement

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Regular readers of this blog will know that a recurring whinge relates to the strict orthodoxy of economics - as taught in universities and ...
19 August 2009

An Economy with Soul

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I can't remember who it was who told me that we need to overturn the God of the market: GOD = Grow Or Die. This is obviously a necessary...
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3 April 2009

The Paradox of Thrift

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It was Keynes's view that 'Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually th...
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3 January 2007

Growth or Balance? Cowboy or Spaceman?

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The major objective of the economy as it works now is to grow, and the more it grows the happier the politicians are. Green economists would...
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