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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
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) : Tony Dolphin, Kayte Lawton, Clare McNeil
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) : Adam Lent, Tony Dolphin
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) : Tony Dolphin, Dr Rajiv Prabhakar
21 Apr 2010
16 Mar 2010
16 Mar 2010
Opportunities in an Age of Austerity: Smart ways of dealing with the UK’s fiscal deficit
03 Dec 2009
Opportunities in an Age of Austerity: Smart ways of dealing with the UK’s fiscal deficit
03 Dec 2009
How To Make Capitalism Better: Conclusions from the Tomorrow’s Capitalism programme
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, IPPR, Senior Economist
15 Sep 2009
Articles
Spend, spend, spend - 17 Feb 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Greek tragedy - 14 Feb 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
In Defence of Quantitative Easing - 11 Feb 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Economic Update – February 2012: Double dipped - 07 Feb 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Small businesses can play a vital role – but only if they get the finance they need - 02 Feb 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
The double-dip begins - 25 Jan 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Growth, not the deficit, will define the economic debate in 2012 - 21 Jan 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Growth revision shows economic recovery is off track - 09 Jan 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Economic update – January 2012: Outlook not all bad - 09 Jan 2012
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Happy New Year? - 27 Dec 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Inflation starts to head lower (probably) - 13 Dec 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Economic update: November 2011 monthly review - 05 Dec 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
'Mini-budget’ are not a real plan for growth - 30 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
How Osborne’s locked in to making the bad times worse - 29 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
The Independent View: 10 ways to promote growth - 25 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Ten ways to promote sustainable and inclusive growth in the UK - 23 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Osborne should change course next Tuesday, but he won’t - 23 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Adam Lent, Tony Dolphin
Arresting industrial decline in the UK - 18 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
High inflation + high unemployment = misery, misery, misery… - 17 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Osborne’s refusal to increase demand leaves young unemployed without hope - 14 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
The battle for growth - 14 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Economic update: October 2011 monthly review - 09 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Ignore Osborne’s spin; a jobs recession is inevitable - 01 Nov 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
How bad is this recession? - 28 Oct 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Setting benefits by inflation is not ‘unfair’ - 19 Oct 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Inflation report is bad news for Osborne’s targets - 18 Oct 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Economic update: September 2011 monthly review - 04 Oct 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Ed Miliband's challenge: Shifting economic paradigms won't be easy - 01 Oct 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
IMF: Cutting the deficit too fast causes higher unemployment - 19 Sep 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
Vince Cable's conference speech: panel verdict - 19 Sep 2011
Author(s) : Tony Dolphin
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