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Tag Archives: George Osborne
Apr 25 2013
No Triple Dip does not mean a good recovery
5 CommentsTweet John Van Reenen reacts to the news today that the UK has avoided economic contraction in the last quarter. Whilst Osborne may see this as cause to celebrate, there is nothing commendable about an economy that continues to stagnate. This … Continue reading
Posted by: April 25, 2013
Tagged with: George Osborne, triple dip recession
Mar 31 2013
Book Review: George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor
Leave a commentTweet Given Janan Ganesh’s status as a Financial Times political columnist and his choice of subject matter, it was inevitable that George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor would attract attention. Timothy Heppell finds the book illuminating when it comes to understanding the professional career … Continue reading
Posted by: March 31, 2013
Tagged with: George Osborne
Mar 26 2013
The scheme to lend home buyers up to 20% of the value of a new build home is an attempt to return the housing market to its pre-crash status quo
2 CommentsTweet Reflecting on last week’s budget, Simon Wren-Lewis finds that the only measure that stood out was a new scheme to lend home buyers up to 20% of the value of a new build home. He explains how this, in effect, aims … Continue reading
Posted by: March 26, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, budget2013, George Osborne, housing market
Mar 22 2013
Growth, Graphs and George: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Fraser Nelson offers a series of ‘scary’ graphs illustrating the difficulties facing the UK economy. Ashwin Kumar argues that behind the Chancellor’s allegedly fiscal neutral budget is the hidden borrowing of future pension promises. Isabel Hardman explores the political ramifications of the central role that … Continue reading
Posted by: March 22, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, budget, budget2013, chancellor, George Osborne
Mar 22 2013
Osborne missed a golden opportunity to implement radical supply-side reforms
Leave a commentTweet Richard Wellings argues that the Coalition’s economic policies have been founded on mistaken assumptions about growth, leading to a politically convenient embrace of smaller cuts than would otherwise be deemed necessary. He argues that much more radical supply-side reform is … Continue reading
Posted by: March 22, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, budget2013, George Osborne, OBR
Mar 21 2013
Asphyxiation Nation? This is not a budget for ‘a Britain that wants to be prosperous, solvent and free’
Leave a commentTweet Tim Bale found yesterday’s budget depressingly ideological, driven by an attempt to stick to a script written by Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe in the 1980s. However he argues that this script of ‘staying the course’ is inadequate for economic challenges … Continue reading
Posted by: March 21, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, budget, budget2013, George Osborne, thatcher, Thatcherism
Mar 21 2013
This was a “small beer” budget with little fundamentally changed
Leave a commentTweet Reflecting on yesterday’s budget, John Van Reenen argues that an opportunity was missed. While there were good things in the budget, the 1p off a pint of beer was symbolic. This was a budget in which little changed and the … Continue reading
Posted by: March 21, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, budget, budget2013, George Osborne, public investment
Mar 12 2013
The conservatives are out of touch with the renewed politics of redistribution
Leave a commentTweet Bart Cammaerts argues that we have entered an era in which the politics of redistribution is reasserting itself, borne out of the 2008 financial crisis and the moral indignation stirred by massive tax-payer bailouts. The Tories have been caught flat-footed … Continue reading
Posted by: March 12, 2013
Tagged with: bailouts, George Osborne, redistribution, welfare
