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Post-Crisis Economics

February 14, 2012
A conference last week brought together a variety of economists from academia and policy to...

HS2 gets Traction

January 12, 2012
Justine Greening has announced this week that HS2 will go ahead – which is enormously...

Infrastructure Rules

December 6, 2011
It is fascinating how our attitudes have changed. Ten years ago, I was arguing the...

Value Added and Plan B

June 20, 2011
The proponents of the need for a Plan B have got one thing right –...

Happiness Sceptic

June 3, 2011
I finally got something positive about the project to measure wellbeing. Much of this has...

Engaging Citizens

June 2, 2011
I have just participated in a workshop organised by a EU Research Programme called ASSYST,...

Abusing the Future

April 22, 2010
We all know that we don’t know what the future will hold but we all...

Making Climate Change win-win

April 11, 2010
This is the theme of the conference of the European Climate Forum this year.Listening to...

To Borrow or not to Borrow?

March 4, 2010
The ICAEW (the accountants) had a conference on securing public finances on Tuesday. They published...

Inequality or Poverty

March 1, 2010
I am exercised by the distinction between caring about poverty and caring about inequality. We...