The SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon says austerity has held the economy back. Is she right?
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The main parties are spending most of their time arguing over the speed and extent of cuts, when they should be talking about growth.
The Liberal Democrats’ commitment to austerity will help cut the deficit, but likely come at the expense of growth.
The Conservatives can’t quite figure out how to both cut defence spending and procure new kit the UK can actually use.
Both major parties have tried to address their key weaknesses head on – but it’s too late to change voters’ perceptions.
The UK’s economic performance can be spun in different ways. Here, the Coalition’s economic record is broken down.
Persistent misconceptions over the nature of the Greek bail-out play a subtle but key role in sustaining a damaging mythology – and preventing a viable treatment of the crisis.
Five years of Coalition government later, it is clear that the poorest have paid most dearly as a result of various tax and benefit changes.
Plaid’s numbers on growth add up, but their policies could end up costing the taxpayer.
The advocates (and beneficiaries) of austerity are succeeding in cornering the country worst hit by the euro crisis.
The political to-and-fro after George Osborne’s budget failed to ignite political imaginations. Maybe because all parties are struggling to rationalise the hole government coffers.
What the chancellor didn’t mention is that UK GDP per person is 16% lower than we would have expected on pre-crisis trends and the major factor is lousy productivity growth.
Austerity has not been a success for the Chancellor, but that won’t stop him from trying to paint is as such.
A first-rate piece of political and economic provocation is to haunt Trafalgar Square over the election.
The coalition’s austerity programme knocked 1% off growth, and yet all parties are planning on sticking with it.
There is a view that austerity hasn’t hit the UK’s universities. In fact they have saved £1bn in three years.
The Conservatives are campaigning on the idea that they have succeeded at reducing the UK’s fiscal deficit. But deficit reduction has been an economic failure.
The reforms required by Greece’s bailout package are crucial to reviving its economy but politics could get in the way.
After years of austerity, European citizens are organising resistance and voting against the politics of fear. Will they learn from Latin America’s painful experience?
David Cameron is going to have to defend his austerity record in the weeks ahead. Did he get it right?
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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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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Professor of Citizen Participation, University of Essex
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, York St John University
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT University
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
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Professor of Economics, University of Athens
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
