Simon Wren-Lewis: How the lessons from austerity have not been learned

More than a million students face a new wave of walkouts at universities across Britain, after staff voted in favour of strike action over pensions, pay and working conditions. Read here

What a lot of people do not fully grasp. Inflation can be driven by administrative decisions and can be curtailed or restrained by varying those decisions. Read here Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

According to Hofstadter’s Law, obviously a descendent of Murphy’s Law, ‘everything takes longer than you think’. Last year the first to get acquainted with it in a big way was the Russian warlord, Putin, who […]