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Tag Archives: recession
Dec 20 2012
What does the recession mean for the income distribution?
Leave a commentTweet The fall in UK living standards which is following the recession has been widely acknowledged but the question of how this is impacting on different groups within society remains profoundly contentious. Robert Joyce offers an analysis of these changes and argues … Continue reading
Posted by: December 20, 2012
Tagged with: austerity, income distribution, recession
Dec 17 2012
Introducing our latest eCollection: Resilience in the Recession
1 CommentTweet Elizabeth Cotton reflects on a series of posts written for this site on wellbeing and the workplace. The six articles have been compiled into an eCollection that can be downloaded in PDF format. One year on from these original six … Continue reading
Posted by: December 17, 2012
Tagged with: mental health, recession, resilience, social media, unemployment
Oct 25 2012
Given the enormity of the short- and long-run fiscal challenges facing the US, the lack of policy detail from both presidential candidates is disappointing
Leave a commentTweet In the second part of their analysis of US policy responses to the economic recession, Ethan Ilzetzki and Jonathan Pinder examine the policy efforts aimed at reducing US public debt. They argue that proposals put forward by both presidential candidates … Continue reading
Posted by: October 25, 2012
Tagged with: debt, economic crisis, Economic Policy, fiscal stimulus, recession
Oct 24 2012
Monetary or fiscal stimulus can help only if unemployment is cyclical; otherwise, if unemployment is structural expansionary policies will lead only to inflation. Careful recent analyses indicate that unemployment is mainly cyclical in the US
Leave a commentTweet Ethan Ilzetzki and Jonathan Pinder examine the US economic woes since the beginning of the recession and the policy response aimed at fighting unemployment. They find that monetary or fiscal stimulus can help only if unemployment is cyclical and that … Continue reading
Posted by: October 24, 2012
Tagged with: Economic Policy, fiscal stimulus, monetary expansion, recession
Sep 9 2012
Book Review: Economics After The Crisis: Objectives and Means
Leave a commentTweet In Economics After the Crisis, Adair Turner writes that the crisis of 2008-2009 should prompt a wide set of challenges to economic and political assumptions and to economic theory. Turner argues that the faults of theory and policy that led to the … Continue reading
Posted by: September 9, 2012
Tagged with: Bank of England, Banks, economic theory, economics, economy, financial crisis, recession
Aug 16 2012
The unsolved puzzle of the UK labour market: Why is employment rising as GDP is falling?
6 CommentsTweet The recent employment figures released show that 200,000 new jobs were generated in the UK in the three months to June. Ian Brinkley ponders these figures in light of the continuing contraction of the UK’s economy, explaining some of the factors that … Continue reading
Posted by: August 16, 2012
Tagged with: employment, GDP growth, recession, unemployment
Jul 27 2012
Lessons for coalitions, the importance of Monsieur President and Osborne’s refined message: 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Ben Young at Liberal Democrat Voice lays out some lessons for the future in making coalition government work. Declan Gaffney discusses the moral relevance of quantitative evidence in public debate. Rafael Behr at The Staggers notes the importance of French President … Continue reading
Posted by: July 27, 2012
Tagged with: coalition government, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, productivity, quantitative analysis, recession
Jun 24 2012
Book Review: Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979. Dominic Sandbrook
Leave a commentTweet Seasons in the Sun is a lively and attractively written account of Britain in the mid to late 1970s, covering all the political and cultural highlights and low days that readers might expect. Paul Brighton notes that although it shouldn’t be taken … Continue reading
Posted by: June 24, 2012
Tagged with: 1970s, British Politics and Policy, culture, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, recession
