People's QE and Corbyn’s QE

Politicians can be adept at co-opting attractive sounding terms to their own cause, even when they distort their meaning while doing so. Osb...

A budget for our next Prime Minister

There is a simple way to read George Osborne’s budgets. Forget the economics, and just think politics. Take the macroeconomics of aggregate ...

Should economists rule?

Tim Harford in the FT talks to seven random mainstream economists about their radical ideas for economic policy. (Podcast, not pay walled, h...

Tim Harford’s new book on macroeconomics

Let me first deal with a potential conflict of interest. Tim has a wide twitter following, and quite often tweets a reference to my blog pos...