Simon Wren-Lewis

March 14, 2023

Budget explainer: here are some ways to read between the lines on what’s being reported

Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford

Reading economic news can be confusing. Here’s how to understand what the news is – and isn’t – telling you.

March 8, 2017

UK budget 2017: experts respond

Michael Kitson, Cambridge Judge Business School; Andrew Gunn, University of Leeds; Catherine Needham, University of Birmingham; Donald Hirsch, Loughborough University; Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University; Ian Greenwood, University of Leeds; Jonquil Lowe, The Open University; Kevin Farnsworth, University of York; Michael Devereux, University of Oxford, and Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford

Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.

May 17, 2016

Why is the academic consensus on the cost of Brexit being ignored?

Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford

Voters see claim and counter claim about the economic effects of leaving the EU but the overwhelming consensus among economists is that Brexit will make Britons worse off.

August 27, 2015

Varoufakis in conversation with leading academics as Syriza splinters and election beckons in Greece

Yanis Varoufakis, University of Athens; Anton Muscatelli, University of Glasgow; Cristina Flesher Fominaya, University of Aberdeen; Kamal A Munir, University of Cambridge; Mariana Mazzucato, University of Sussex; Mark Taylor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick; Panicos O Demetriades, University of Leicester; Roy Bailey, University of Essex; Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford, and Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London

Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.

April 21, 2015

Fact Check: has austerity held back economic growth?

Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford

The SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon says austerity has held the economy back. Is she right?

March 17, 2015

The graph George Osborne doesn’t want you to see

Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford

George Osborne has repeatedly managed to promise tax cuts and deficit reduction – and we can expect more of the same in this year’s budget.

April 30, 2014

UK growth numbers highlight the gap between rhetoric and reality on recovery

Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford

What does the now sustained recovery in the UK and the still tentative signs of recovery in the eurozone tell us? According to some on the right, it says all is good in the world, austerity has been successful…

April 1, 2014

The European Left’s economic policies risk looking feeble

Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford

Why does the economic policy pursued or proposed by the Left in Europe often seem so pathetic? The clearest example of this lies just across the channel. France is subject to the same fiscal straitjacket…