Keynesian Liberal

At one stage in my career as an economics teacher I stressed that we should always refer to "unemployed people" rather then ...

I offer his plot gratuitously to any author writing for Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre. Scene 1: Heaven. God notes with approval the work o...

I haven't actually read these proposals which I understand are set out in today's "Observer" but one of our "followe...

My very good friend TGE John Cole, MLE, has pointed out via an Observer article by Bill Keegan on the 16th October (sorry,can't get the ...

In an article on the effects of the economic crisis on the morale of we UK citizens Guardian columnist Marina Hyde uses such phrases as ...

About 20 years ago someone, (I forget whom, but the quote used to appear on NUJMB economics exam papers,) said that trying to steer the econ...

Given that it will take a year or two, if not a decade or two, to bring society round to the view that full employment can be achieved by mo...

The title of this blog is meant to be "Care" homes. I'd be interested to know from any linguist in what language the first wo...

Those of us whose memories of economic and political data go back to 1970 and the freak Balance of Trade figures* which helped to scupper La...

Keynes and the coalition's economic policies are in the news at the moment but unfortunately I am too busy (marking exam scripts under a...

Martin Wolf had an interesting article in the Business Spectator last month in which three points in particular stand out: 1. Although po...

On the 28th October the coalition produced a White Paper “Local growth: realising every place’s potential” My friend John Cole, like me a re...

George Osborne is quite right to offer £7 billion to help bail out the Irish economy, though one is disposed to wonder how a country of only...

From page xi of Will Hutton's introduction to his latest book"Them and Us": The greatest danger to the new government is its...

One of the many things that annoy me about present-day society is the way the media devote so much time in the so called "news" p...

Anyone with15 minutes to spare and a serious interest in the world economic crisis should read this article by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells ...

Here are three extract from the Guardian's economics editor, Larry Elliott, in yesterday's paper: Title: "The deficit hawks ne...

Both Nick Clegg and Vince Cable give the economic problems of Greece and the eurozone as the reason for Liberal Democrat support for public ...

The article by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times to which Jaime draws attention (click here ) contains some interesting figures: The UK ec...

Ir is good to hear Tory Ian Duncan Smith speak so passionately about the absurdity of the employment trap, by which unemployed people can fa...