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Local media in China reported yesterday that the powerful National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the agency responsible for planning China’s social and economic development, has proposed the country adopt an absolute cap on carbon emissions from 2016 (also here … Continue reading
The debate on the publication today of the statistics on the public sector finances for 2012/13 has focused mainly on whether the deficit is falling or not. The answer is no: the deficit in 2012/13 was broadly the same as … Continue reading
The term ‘Thatcherism’ was first coined by Stuart Hall in his seminal 1979 essay, ‘The Great Moving Right Show’. At that time, it was the Eurocommunist intellectuals grouped around the magazine Marxism Today – Hall, Eric Hobsbawm and kindred spirits … Continue reading
With the economic recovery continuing to stall, there was a broad consensus ahead of today’s budget that the chancellor should provide a boost for housing and the construction sector, to help get jobs and growth going. George Osborne responded with … Continue reading
We now know quite a lot of what will be in the chancellor’s autumn statement tomorrow. There will be reductions in higher-rate tax relief for pension contributions, a relative cut in working-age benefits (which will rise by 1 per cent … Continue reading
In the screeds of prose currently being written about Barack Obama’s re-election and what it might or might not mean for UK politics, it is the economy, stupid, that stands out as most perplexing.
At IPPR we’re proud to be an accredited living wage employer. Back in 2005, one of our members of staff got involved with the London Citizens campaign for a living wage and lobbied for IPPR to sign up, which we … Continue reading
Last year I was approached by a Radio 4 producer to contribute some thoughts to a piece he was putting together on the rise of zombie motifs in contemporary popular culture. Could deeper socioeconomic trends explain this phenomenon, he asked?
For many years, admiration for the Swedish economic and social model was a preserve of the British left. That started to change in 2006, when the centre-right Moderate party took power in Sweden under the youthful and dynamic leadership of … Continue reading
Izabella Kaminska has posted this very interesting FT Alphaville blog on a recent Capital Economics report on the output gap (h/t Duncan Weldon). If – and it’s a very, very big if – the output gap is still about 6 … Continue reading
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