The Labour leadership has got itself into a right mess over the government’s fiscal charter. Some of this is just the result of political mismanagement and chronic mishandling of the media. But there...
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This week I had an essay in the Labour conference edition of the New Statesman, on the decline of social democracy. The title gives a clue as to the content: ‘ In the valley of death ’. Nothing...
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This report shows how the chancellor could make the forthcoming spending review as progressive as possible – while keeping his promises to reach a surplus by 2019/20 and to avoid rises in national...
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This paper looks at the emergence of the ‘northern powerhouse’ concept, and in particular at the response of northern businesses to it. The majority view of northern businesses surveyed and...
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This book; a collaboration between Policy Network and IPPR; aims to ask a series of challenging questions concerning the future of the British economy. The debate surrounding economic policy in the...
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This short briefing explains the four economic sectors that make up the UK's fiscal balance sheet, and identifies some dangerous assumptions lurking in the chancellor's plans for deficit reduction in...
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This report sets out an ambitious agenda for 'definancialisation', for rolling back the socially useless aspects of modern finance and advancing both its productive potential and the democratic...
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In this report we assess the extent to which local enterprise partnerships are addressing and planning for the long-term economic and social challenges that their areas face. In the wake of the...
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Here, we really are living beyond our means - and have been for the last three decades. Official figures for the first three quarters of the year show that 2013 is set to be the 30th consecutive...
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Rising demand for public services, moves to reduce the welfare bill and the geographical iniquities of previous spending reviews together mean that the 2015 spending review will need to be substantiv...
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