Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts
12 June 2013

This is What Austerity is For

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In a climate of fear and austeria the received wisdom is that you should not be concerned about the size of your pay cheque: you should be g...
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11 February 2013

Irrational Expectations

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For years leading up to the financial crisis it was obvious that the money within the economy was being misallocated. A tiny elite were mana...
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6 October 2012

Ineffective Government Breeds Ineffective Demand

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The launch of the Bristol Pound on 19 September was the subject of international media attention , and rightly so.   The decision by ...
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15 May 2012

It's the System, Stupid!

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So the Eurozone is on the brink of slipping back into Recession. The latest growth figures indicate the growing inequality that the single c...
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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 ...
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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30 October 2009

A Tale of Two Sectors

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I am posting from distant Brno, which is a civilised country where you can travel miles on a tram for fifty pence and people still stop work...
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26 September 2009

Time to Buy Gold

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Once upon a time I was taught by Danny Blanchflower. No, I have never played football, I'm talking about the economist of that name - we...
9 September 2008

What is a Brumaire anyway?

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At the risk of sounding like a Marxist I can't help noticing that the struggle between capital and labour over the value in the economy ...
17 July 2008

Just Use It!

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As the recession deepens, businesses will fold. They will no longer be needing the resources over which they have exerted control in an era ...
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