An OECD whitewash for Osborne?
Geroge Irvin looks at the OECD’s ‘Economic Survey of the UK 2011’ – and asks if it’s a whitewash for the coalition government and Mr Osborne.
George Irvin
Website George writes for Left Foot Forward on the economy, specialising in taking on the hard-right arguments of the spending slashers. He is a retired professor of economics and is currently (honorary) Professorial Research Fellow in Development Studies at the University of London, SOAS, and is the author of “Super Rich: the rise of inequality in Britain and the US”; his website can be found at www.george.irvin.com.
Is Japan facing economic meltdown?
George Irvin, retired professor of economics and currently (honorary) Professorial Research Fellow in Development Studies at SOAS, looks at the economic impact of the Japanese earthquake/tsunami on Japan and the world.
Tory right, obsessed with cuts, still deaf to the lessons of the thirties
The Tory right, obsessed with shrinking the state, appears entirely deaf to the lessons of the US in 1937, or of Greece and Ireland today, writes George Irvin.
Expansionary fiscal contraction and the emperor’s clothes
George Osborne’s policy of “expansionary fiscal contraction” is based on an economic myth. Britain’s current economic circumstances mean it won’t work.