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David Blanchflower

David Blanchflower is economics editor of the New Statesman and professor of economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

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Society
Get our youngsters back to work
26 November 2009

Youth unemployment has become a national crisis; time is running out for the government to act

Economics
Wrong on the way down and up
19 November 2009

The MPC has once again entered the world of wishful thinking, as it did at the beginning of the rece

Economics
It’s good to go walkabout
12 November 2009

Central bankers need to be people with experience of the real world, rather than academic economists

Health
Happiness is U-shaped
05 November 2009

Don't believe all you read suggesting that quality of life in the UK is rotten

UK Politics
Darling must not put VAT back up
29 October 2009

The news that we are still in recession proves that this is no time to raise taxes

Society
It’s time for a few home truths
22 October 2009

We are told that the house-price bust is over but with wages falling it is unlikely that prices have

Politics
What’s so bad about inflation?
15 October 2009

In contrast to the tiny costs of inflation, the costs of unemployment are enormous

UK Politics
This crisis is far from over yet
08 October 2009

In contrast to the UK, there is even talk in the US of the need for a second fiscal stimulus package

Economics
Osborne’s figures don’t add up
01 October 2009

The Conservatives are still without a plausible plan for recovery

UK Politics
Pity the lost generation
24 September 2009

The time for cutting public spending is not now, not next year and not the year after. We must help

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