The path from deficit concern to deficit deceit

I have always written that the arguments in 2010 for focusing fiscal policy on reducing debt were understandable. They were wrong, but you c...

Speak for yourself, or why anti-Keynesian views survive

“The evidence for the Keynesian worldview is very mixed. Most economists come down in favor or against it because of their prior ideological...

Destroying the state is no accident

In a discussion of George Osborne’s plans for the deficit, I suggested that - if we were to take them seriously - they could only be ration...

A campaign to mislead

This week UK taxpayers are starting to receive letters which detail where their money goes. It is a George Osborne initiative designed, sup...

UK attitudes on the size of the state

This is a follow up to my post on shrinking the state, but actually it is about something I found when thinking about the Scottish independe...

Shrinking the State

More on George Osborne’s plans, courtesy of the OBR’s latest publication . ( Campaigning for a UK Fiscal Council was one of my better calls...

The state, corporations and markets

I have written in the past that I have no idea how large the state should be, so this issue has no bearing on my views about austerity or fi...

The scandal of the austerity deception

I have been on holiday somewhere with understandably limited internet access, so I missed this post from assistant editor of the Daily Teleg...