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Economistas versus la economía

Seamos honestos: nadie sabe qué está sucediendo en la economía mundial hoy. La recuperación del colapso de 2008 ha sido inesperadamente lenta. ¿Estamos en el sendero hacia una salud plena...

The recovery from 2008's global crash is 'incomplete'. So what next?

Fiscal policy is edging back into fashion, after years, if not decades, in purdah. The reason is simple: the incomplete recovery from the global crash of 2008.

El dinero helicóptero está en el aire

La política fiscal se encumbra nuevamente como la política de moda, después de años, incluso después de décadas, de haber estado aislada tras un velo. La razón para este retorno es simple...

People are more worried by government debt than taxation

Most people are more worried by government debt than about taxation. “But it’strillions” a friend of mine recently expostulated about the United Kingdom’s national debt. He exaggerated a ...

What would Keynes think about negative interest rates?

As a biographer and aficionado of John Maynard Keynes, I am sometimes asked: “What would Keynes think about negative interest rates?”

This is what Robert Skidelsky thinks will happen to Europe

The European Union has never been very popular in Britain. It joined late, and its voters will be asked on June 23 whether they want to leave early. The referendum’s outcome will not be l...

Does Keynes’s theory still hold up?

In 1935, John Maynard Keynes wrote to George Bernard Shaw: “I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the ...

Is there ever a safe amount of debt?

Is there a “safe” debt/income ratio for households or debt/GDP ratio for governments? In both cases, the answer is yes. And in both cases, it is impossible to say exactly what that ratio ...

再论西方的衰落

How will the West respond to the migration crisis?

Are there alternatives to the UK’s austerity policy?

最低工资还是过活所得？

Should we replace the minimum wage with a basic income?

中俄联姻

Why austerity was the wrong policy for the UK, part 3