Twitter
Tweets by MichaelKitson-
Recent Posts
- The UK Budget: Reeves’s Long-Term Vision faces Short-Term Economic Risks
- Forget Super Thursday, the Bank of England can only offer Mildly Useful Thursday
- Ignore the mudslinging – Corbyn would be a sound option for Labour
- Budget 2015: cuts to make Daily Mail readers wince, but not just yet
- David Cameron’s red light zone is closer to home than he thinks
Archives
Categories
Meta
Author Archives: mk242013
More unfounded optimism from the Bank of England?
The Bank of England has produced its latest inflation report and the Governor, Sir Mervyn King, believes that there is “grounds for optimism”. The problem with this is that the Bank has been consistently overoptimistic about the prospects for inflation … Continue reading
Posted in economic policy
Leave a comment
Dr Carney and the UK economy
There has been lot of fanfare about the appointment of Mark Carney as the next Governor of the Bank of England. Apparently he is the Lionel Messi of central bankers who will transform the state of the British economy. He … Continue reading
Posted in economic policy
Leave a comment
The Benefits of a Plan B: Lessons from the Interwar Period
A reoccurring refrain in British political discourse is that there are few if any options in the conduct of economic policy. In the 1980s, Mrs Thatcher proclaimed that ‘there is no alternative’; more recently, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George … Continue reading
Posted in economic history, economic policy
Leave a comment
Does Manufacturing Matter?
Prior to the financial crisis and the era of austerity, the manufacturing sector in the UK was benignly neglected by politicians of all persuasions. But a political consensus has now emerged around the need to rebalance the economy, with a … Continue reading
Posted in economic history, manufacturing, Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Austerity: we are not all in it together
Available at the OUP Blog
Posted in economic policy, regions
Leave a comment
Michael Kitson: Economist 