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National Politics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Why nationalisation can be a gift to a future Conservative government

July 18, 2023 David Shirreff 0

If an incoming Labour government were to renationalise various badly-performing UK industries, the next Conservative government would take great pleasure in privatising them again. In other words, Labour, don’t waste time and money. Read HERE […]

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Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Which OECD country is the highest social spender?

April 25, 2023 David Shirreff 0

That France is top is probably not a huge surprise , but that the United States is second might astonish Read Here

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Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: It makes no economic sense to keep shrinking the state without changing what the state is meant to do

November 1, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Shrinking the state makes everyone worse off by reducing national income – some of that income loss in the past has probably become permanent Read Here Wikimedia Commons

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Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Is the German Debt Brake the worst fiscal rule ever?

May 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is not about Anglo-Saxon economists telling Germany what to do. There are plenty of German economists who also see that the German debt brake makes no sense, and anyway economics is universal. The debt […]

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Austerity

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

August 8, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The UK and the Eurozone are both vulnerable to the next recession, but both politicians and central bankers think each other should deal with it. Read here

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Climate Crisis

Simon Wren-Lewis: How to pay for the Green New Deal

February 20, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In our continuing coverage of the Green New Deal we are presenting an article by Simon Wren-Lewis, an economics professor and advisor of Jeremy Corbyn. There is one especially good passage: “No one in a […]

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Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Should we worry about temporarily raising government debt?

January 12, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is truly an historical article. Simon Wren-Lewis has written a blog without mentioning Brexit – and its a good one. Read here  

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Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis – Helping the left behind: It’s (economic) geography, stupid

December 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Simon Wren-Lewis discusses how the political divide that has become clear since the Brexit vote (and which is also clear in US support for Trump) is between towns and cities, not between regions. Cross-posted from […]

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Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Helping the left behind: its (economic) geography, stupid

December 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The growing divide since the 1980s is about the fortunes of large cities compared to smaller units. But the economic theory behind that dynamic can also be used to help those left behind. Read here

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Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: MMT and Labour’s fiscal rule

October 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Simon Wren-Lewis, one of the architects of the British Labour Party´s “Fiscal Rule”, replies to Bill Mitchell`s criticism (read here and here) Read here

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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