December 5, 2013

This exchange, and chart, illuminate the biggest challenge and biggest opportunity for Ed Miliband. . @jamestplunkett But not feed through into consumer confidence on own finances yet. Big challenge. pic.twitter.com/rKOVK2NnyK — Matthew Oakley (@MJ_Oakley) December 5, 2013 So, people expect the UK economy to be doing a bit better. They see an inflection point in…

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Shorter me: economists should study business more, and in an ideal world, industrial sociology, before they try to do cognitive psychology Peter Dorman at Econospeak takes issue with a Robert Frank piece about workplace safety, which has all the whoopee doo Econ-101 problems you’d expect. I think, though, that there is a really big issue…

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