The fiscal charter media fiasco

The House of Commons passes into law a fiscal charter which enshrines in the short term another period of severe austerity, and thereafter c...

Media myths

At first sight the research reported here is something that only political science researchers should worry about. In trying to explain elec...

The academic consensus on the impact of austerity

In discussing the forthcoming UK budget, Robert Peston writes : “And before I am savaged (as I always am) by the Krugman crew of Keynesian e...

Was an anti-austerity policy politically possible in 2010?

Could left and centre politicians in the US or Europe have got away with saying forget about the deficit? It is clear to some of us at least...

UK election: it was mediamacro wot won it

After the UK general election in 1992, which the Conservatives won to the surprise of many, the Murdoch owned tabloid newspaper the Sun spla...

Myths: a reply to Tony Yates

In this post Tony was responding to both my mediamacro series and Paul Krugman’s Guardian article , but I’m going to focus on the former. ...

On mediamacro

What do I mean by mediamacro? I realised reading this post from Tony Yates that I had never really defined what I meant by the term, so whe...

Mediamacro myth 8: employment growth

We have had the slowest recovery from a recession almost since records began, and a large part of that is down to the sharp fiscal contracti...