Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.
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The harshest cuts have yet to happen, but the bite is already being felt.
The debate about museums as businesses is in danger of trumping defences of museums and galleries as public institutions.
Making the NHS a seven-day service would intensify the pressure on the groaning social care system.
Upstarts on the left and right are proving that people of all political leanings want change.
Being poor doesn’t make you a bad parent but families need protective factors to counter the negative ones.
Greece can learn a lot from Africa’s 1980s and 1990s experience of living with structural adjustment (austerity). The damage has been long-lasting – not only on economies, but also directly on people.
The last-minute bailout deal will keep Greece in the common currency, but at a cost of the dream that was the euro.
What might feel like a victory this morning for eurozone leaders and lenders has only served to feed a eurosceptic beast.
The government’s austerity programme hasn’t just put the poor under terrible pressure – it’s actually breached Britain’s international legal obligations.
The deadline for Greece’s latest payment has passed, so why is Syriza pushing ahead with a referendum?
The upcoming emergency budget will offer the chancellor of exchequer, George Osborne, an opportunity to set up his stall as an unofficial candidate to the leadership of the Conservative Party. No other…
Navigating the welfare system is part of the daily work of most health and social care workers – from the therapists advising patients on how to survive a “fitness to work” assessment to the 30% of NHS…
Investment for profit and development should lie at the heart of a solution for the imbalances in Greece and Europe.
Osborne’s experience as chancellor from 2010-2015 should have taught him that he can’t directly control the deficit or surplus.
From rail strike threats to new anti-strike legislation, the Tory election success looks set to bring tensions to the boil in the coming weeks and months.
The Conservative Party’s plans for an extra £8 billion annual health spending aren’t enough to halt a decline in quality care – never mind transform the NHS.
Six hundred years separate two post-election protests, but the issues at hand are strangely similar and the mistakes too easily repeated.
Young people could change the outcome in anywhere between 11 and 41 constituencies.
We’ve lost a lot of libraries and a lot of books since 2010. The UK can’t face any more cuts.
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Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS, University of London
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, York St John University
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Professor of Citizen Participation, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Economics, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Honorary Professor, Department of Economics, University of Stirling
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Professor of International Relations, Australian National University