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Tony Dolphin
Senior Economist and Associate Director for Economic Policy
Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6184Email: t.dolphin@ippr.org
Areas of expertise:
- UK fiscal and monetary policy
- Interpreting recent economic developments
- The labour market
- Policies to promote economic growth in the UK
- Equality
- Policy on savings and assets
Tony is an experienced media performer, with recent appearances on Newsnight, BBC News at Ten, BBC Radio 4 Today programme and various other radio channels. He has written articles for the Guardian’s Comment is Free and is frequently quoted in the national press on economic developments in the UK and on fiscal and monetary policy.
Prior to joining IPPR in 2009, Tony Dolphin worked as an economist and investment strategist at Henderson Global Investors, and before that in a similar role at WorldInvest Limited. He has also worked as an Economic Adviser in HM Treasury and in the former Department for Education and Science. Tony has a BA in Economics from the University of Liverpool.
Publications
Young people and savings: A route to improved financial resilience
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
12 Nov 2012
Investing for the future: Why we need a British Investment Bank
Author(s) : David Nash, Tony Dolphin
19 Sep 2012
15 Nov 2011
Build now or pay later? Funding new housing supply
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Graeme Cooke, Andy Hull
25 Oct 2011
All Change: Will there be a revolution in economic thinking in the next few years?
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, David Nash
30 Sep 2011
Jobs for the future: The path back to full employment in the UK
Author(s) : Kayte Lawton, Clare McNeil, Tony Dolphin
14 Sep 2011
Forever Blowing Bubbles? Housing's role in the UK economy
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Matt Griffith
31 May 2011
Designing a Life-Course Savings Account: How to help low-to-middle income families save more
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
25 Apr 2011
Deficit Reduction Averaging: A Plan B for fiscal tightening
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Adam Lent
16 Mar 2011
25 Feb 2011
Death and Taxes: Why Inheritance Tax should be replaced with a Capital Receipts Tax
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
26 Dec 2010
The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on Emerging and Developing Economies
Author(s) : Laura Chappell, Tony Dolphin
18 Sep 2010
Asset-Based Welfare and Child Poverty: Next steps for the Welsh Assembly
Author(s) : Dr Rajiv Prabhakar, Tony Dolphin
21 Apr 2010
16 Mar 2010
16 Mar 2010
Articles
Not a Queen's Speech for the Economy - 08 May 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
GDP Up but There's Still a Long Way to Go - 25 Apr 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Stuck in a rut - 25 Apr 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Amna Silim
As the UK economy continues to stagnate, what will drive economic growth? The state - 02 Apr 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
The budget: wrong diagnosis, wrong cure - 21 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
The Budget: all show, no growth - 20 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
How to conduct fiscal policy in the next parliament - 20 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
11 EU countries are about to implement an FTT: the UK should make it 12 - 18 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
UK needs 'new economic model' to overcome crisis - 13 Mar 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Triple Dip? Maybe - Triple crisis? Definitely - 25 Jan 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
December’s economic update - 08 Jan 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Fixing the finances - 03 Jan 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Fixing finance: The missing piece in banking reform - 03 Jan 2013
Author(s) : Eric Beinhocker, Tony Dolphin
Happy New Year! And here’s the coalition outlook for 2013: grim with no plan for growth - 01 Jan 2013
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Chancellor Visits the 'Magic Money Tree' - 06 Dec 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Osborne needs a new fiscal rule - 04 Dec 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
'Easy-complicated' to 'hard-straightforward' - 21 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Britain needs a state investment bank - 16 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
How pay inequality has soared - 07 Nov 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
First the good news on the economy - 25 Oct 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
We’re out of recession – but it’s too early to pop the champagne corks - 25 Oct 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
If the UK is in recession, how come employment is increasing so rapidly? - 17 Oct 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
The chancellor should not increase benefits by less than today's inflation figure - 16 Oct 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Translating new economic thinking into public policy - 03 Oct 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Vince Cable's business bank lacks ambition - 24 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Latest borrowing data offer only a small crumb of comfort to the Chancellor - 24 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Investing for the future: ambitions for the British Investment Bank - 21 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
We need a proper British Investment Bank, not Osborne's half measure - 03 Sep 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
It's a complex economy, stupid - 08 Aug 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
How should the government respond to the GDP data? - 26 Jul 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
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