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...A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty, translated by Steven Rendall, Belknap (Harvard) £22.95, 288 pages Diane Coyle is professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge Join our online...
...Diane Coyle: The UK is in a structural hole, not a cyclical downturn....
...Diane Coyle: Most people will feel worse off in a year’s time....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...– Cardiff Garcia will be talking Peak Globalisation with Charles Kenny from the Center for Global Development, Citi’s Tina Fordham, Paul Donovan of UBS and Diane Coyle from Enlightenment Economics....
...They’re not, according to the economists David Byrne, John G Fernald, and Marshall B Reinsdorf in a Brookings paper. (Byrne, Fernald, Reinsdorf) —— 3....
...See Diane Coyle, who attended a Bank of England seminar with Piketty and several other economists on Friday....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: The uptrend in UK house prices is largely a secular trend....
...Some cyclical factors (e.g. substitution of labour for capital investment) are likely to unwind, allowing some catch up....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: In short, no....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics: There seems to be plenty of scope for further shocks, especially in financial markets. That would derail the economy again....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics: If there are no further shocks, there is every prospect of growth continuing – but at a mediocre pace....
...Never mind Plan A or Plan B for the deficit; the chancellor of the exchequer’s top priority for the economy in his Autumn statement on Tuesday must be a Plan G for growth....
...wickedness) extraordinarily moral beings, stoic, self-abnegating and – in the persons of Carson the butler (Jim Carter), Mrs Hughes the housekeeper (Phyllis Logan) and above all, Bates the valet (Brendan Coyle...
...It seems to me that much is implicitly premised on (r – g) being small. Maybe r will decline if g does, and the risk-free (ha!) rate is certainly low now. But maybe not, especially risk-adjusted....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics: There is no single policy that will do the trick....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics Emerging economies have been the main drivers of global growth for some years anyway, and will remain so....
...George Pindar, chairman, G.A. Pindar the media company. Prof Andrew Ramroop, Savile Row tailor. Timothy Reddish, national performance director for Disability Swimming....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics It wasn’t illusory....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics It can’t start now but the planning should be going on in the Treasury already....
...David Walker, president and chief executive of the Peter G Peterson Foundation and former Comptroller General of the United States, is the focus of a new documentary film, ‘I.O.U.S.A’, which follows his...
...by (a) reducing global consumers’ spending power and (b) forcing global policymakers to tighten policy We’re concerned about the potential for a double dip in the west when fiscal stimulus runs out, e.g....
...(e.g. speculators, inheritors and older owner occupiers trading down) with limited macroeconomic effects....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics It’s almost impossible to know. There are two new countervailing forces....
...Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics First, the possibility still that the banking collapse will affect everyday payments systems; secondly, the complete evaporation of trade credit and loans for normal...
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