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Levelling up – will it turn Britain into a more equal country?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 07:29:50 +0000

‘Levelling up’ is the nearest the Conservative Party has to a big idea and now it has just become a White Paper, which opens with the following words: “Levelling …

The Digital Economy: a Covid Winner but for whom?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 05:09:19 +0000

During lockdown, the digital economy has been essential and has boomed. But are private network monopolies in the public interest? The early 1900s saw the first attempt to challenge the …

Split: Class Divides Uncovered…. by Covid-19?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:00:48 +0000

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? The expected path of many is to go to university, forge …

Sabotage and Covid-19

Henry Leveson-Gower — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:03:24 +0000

Financial malpractice, we’re told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gaming the system. Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen …

From Nudges to Catalysts: A New Approach to Policy for a New Decade

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:00:20 +0000

Elinor Ostrom at her 2009 Nobel lecture said: “Designing institutions to force (or nudge) entirely self-interested individuals to achieve better outcomes has been the major goal posited by policy analysts …

A New Gold Standard or Impoverished Economics

Henry Leveson-Gower — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:00:11 +0000

The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global …

Why Capitalists Need Communists

Henry Leveson-Gower — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 04:22:55 +0000

The 2020s look set to be the decade of make or break. The big problems we face – climate change, inequality, job creation in the face of automation, housing shortages and pressures …

Holding Corporations to Account: towards an Economic Democracy?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:00:54 +0000

We take it for granted that we get to vote in elections, but that is of course a relatively recent innovation. Universal suffrage only occurred in 1928. However most of …

Is Green Growth a Myth?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:00:05 +0000

One thing you can be certain of in what was billed as the most uncertain of elections, is that most candidates will be trying to convince you that their party …

Is there a future for Heterodox Economics?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:44:21 +0000

Over the last 50 years, the community of heterodox economists has expanded, and its publications have proliferated. Heterodoxy was given a big boost after mainstream economics was discredited by the …