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Do Tube strikes make Londoners better off? At first sight, the question is simply absurd. The answer is surely “no”.

The so-called “productivity puzzle” just does not go away. The October, employment figures released by the Office for National Statistics

Karl Marx famously wrote: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”. The phrase might well have been coined

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, is getting his retaliation in early. Faced yet again with the Bank

The competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a report about Price comparison sites at the end of last month. They

Behavioural economics has received the ultimate accolade. Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago Business School has been awarded the

A red-hot topic in economics is randomised controlled trials (RCT). Esther Duflo, the MIT academic who has really driven this

The German elections on Sunday went pretty much according to the polls. Another victory for Chancellor Merkel. Much of the

I have supported Rochdale Hornets, the Rugby League team of my home town, for many years. I continue to enjoy my

The UK jobs market is booming, as the latest ONS figures show. Unemployment is at its lowest for over 40

The devastating storms in America have kept the issue of climate change firmly in the public mind. But so far,

The great Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter, writing in the 1940s, predicted the eventual demise of capitalism. He did not want

The announcement that experiments will take place with driverless lorries on UK motorways ought to be a cause for celebration.

The A-level results have come and gone yet again. Underneath all the hype and excitement, we can see the reliable

Gender issues in the workplace are currently a hot topic. First, we had the furore about male and female pay

The Premier League season opens on Friday against a background of stratospheric transfer deals, with Paris Saint Germain capturing the

Last week we saw yet another major reversal of opinion by experts. For years we have all been lectured severely

Experts are finding it harder to be heard. But is that because of how they communicate? And how solid is

Following the disclosure of salaries at the BBC, it has hardly seemed possible to open a newspaper or switch on

The dominant economic narrative in the UK is a pretty gloomy one just now. True, employment is at a record