Category Archives: economic policy

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

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Austerity: we are not all in it together

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