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Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Decreasing the size of the state is very unpopular

February 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why? Why have we been told for decades that people are fed up with state intervention and state run companies? It is not only the bubble politicians live in. Wren-Lewis fails to mention the integral […]

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: The fatal inconsistency within neoliberalism

January 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There is nothing wrong with a free market. There is when it has been corrupted by neo-liberalism resulting in monopolies and crony-capitalism. It then destroys the market, and that is where we currently are. Read […]

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Voting Labour isn’t going to turn the UK into Venezuela

December 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wren-Lewis explains why the policies of Britian’s labour Party are not lunacy, but sound economics – for some policies of which he carries a share of responsibilty. Read here  

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Government debt phobias, and possible cures

December 5, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Simon Wren-Lewis answers five basic questions concerning national debt: The country will go bankrupt When will the debt be paid off? Money could go on something more useful than paying interest Why should my taxes […]

National Politics

Simon Wren-Lewis: If we treat plutocracy as democracy, democracy dies

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is probably one of the finest blogs that Simon Wren-Lewis has ever written. It is a brilliant political and media  analysis. Read here  

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here    

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Disentangling the UK productivity problem

November 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

There has been a lot of speculation concerning stagnating productivity in the Western industrial nations. Britain has been particularly hard hit. There is much speculation concerning this development. Wren-Lewis offers an interesting analysis. Read here […]

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Austerity and mortality

November 27, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

We have posted a number of articles and links concerning how austerity kills. In this article Simon Wren-Lewis analyses this phnomena in the UK and other European nations Read here  

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Some thoughts about the Job Guarantee

November 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wren -Lewis looks at the economic effects of a permament Job Guarantee policy. Read here  

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: What really caused the financial crisis

November 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wren-Lewis discusses Tam Bayoumi’s recent book “Unfinished Business” concerning the Great Financial Crisis: “What this analysis by Tam Bayoumi convincingly shows is that finance always has to be carefully regulated, and failures in regulation can […]

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Economics

The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

Economics

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

June 15, 2025 2

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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