A physician’s memoir describing a successful research program leads to pondering about research funding strategies. (The picture shows Eric Espiner with present and former colleagues celebrating his book launch.)
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What can Econ101 tell us about Trump’s tariffs?
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The Government’s Growth Strategy Seems to Have Little Analytic Content.
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Angus Deaton’s ‘Economics in America’ challenges the direction that economics has taken.
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Winning office is not the same as achieving change.
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Why is the British Labour Government penalising its poor?
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We should not assume that all adopted innovations are progressive. Jonathon Haidt’s ‘The Anxious Generation’ illustrates that sometimes they require social measures to enhance well being.
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What can you do when you have hit your borrowing limit and still want to spend?
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Why Government borrowing is limited
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Trump may be accelerating the decline of US power.
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The Government’s plans to remove the wellbeing provisions in the Public Finance Act represents a reversal of the way society is travelling.
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ACT ‘s neoliberals are still trying to sneak in a change to the constitution.
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Monopsonies – dominant purchasers – need to be restrained as much as monopolies – dominant sellers. That is what pay equity is about.
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Perhaps the state of the economy is not as sound as we are being told.
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While many of the world’s Christian religions seem preoccupied with personal issues that Jesus, their founder, barely touched upon, they must engage with economic issues too.
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Should we pursue a ‘Golden Rule’ where any public borrowing for consumption is temporary?
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A major American study suggests they are not?
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The budget runup is far from easy.
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Four eighty-year-old books which are still vitally relevant today.
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A modest attempt to analyse Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
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