economics
One-club Osborne drives economy further into the rough
William Bain MP (Labour, Glasgow North East) is the shadow food, farming and fisheries minister, and contributor to “What Next […]
Everything you know about the ‘Thatcherite consensus’ is wrong
Stewart Lansley presents new evidence that pre-80s managed socialism was actually more successful than the market socialism that replaced it.
Just who WILL Osborne listen to?
We’re in a unique political economy, one in which there is no market discipline on the government pursuing the wrong […]
Could earnings-based rent-control replace quantitative easing?
Peter Morgan argues that earnings-based rent-control would be better at increasing demand than quantitative easing, and will do so for less money as well.
Labour in Westminster should learn from Scotland on economic policy
The Labour party in Scotland has now embarked on a journey of realistic policymaking - a process the party in Westminster should pay attention to.
Ofsted finds little profit in vocational business courses
An Ofsted report found problems in post-16 business studies. They found that students work and teachers’ extending and deepening of their understanding was weak.