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Ed Mayo, ex-head of the New Economics Foundation and now of Co-ops UK, has an interesting blog (here) on the

The American economist Hyman Minsky is currently very fashionable, especially amongst those who are sympathetic to the idea of more

Mainstream economic thinking has considerable difficulty in explaining the massive degree of volatility of financial markets over the past few

To many people, this phrase is an oxymoron. How can fiscal contraction be expansionary? But the evidence suggests that this

The British and American recoveries do seem to be stalling. The recovery profile is by no means as strong as

There has been huge media attention about the 2011 Q2 UK GDP growth figures released today. The estimate of 0.2

This is a summary of a presentation I gave in Zurich earlier in June to FuturICT,one ofthe candidate flagship European

The world economy as a whole is roaring away. The 5 per cent real GDP growth on 2010 is almost

Keynes is in many people’s minds at the moment, as uncertainty about the course of the economic recovery is high.

Of course one swallow doesn’t make a summer, but the second quarter 2010 UK GDP figures released today show output

The May 2010 election saw a substantial swing against the incumbent Labour government, though the Conservatives were denied an outright

I am currently in the Scottish Highlands for ten days or so, and my outings on the hills have made

There is a lot of comment at the moment about the risks of a ‘double-dip’ recession, citing evidence from America

The most striking feature of world soccer is that it has become far more egalitarian in terms of performance. The

The new Government’s plans to reduce the deficit much more sharply than most people expected. Will this stimulate or depress