Irwin Stelzer
Articles by Irwin Stelzer
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UK Politics
Europe is Cameron’s Achilles heel
- 27 April 2011
- 32 comments
Ed Miliband could pull a trick by following Gordon Brown’s firm line on the EU’s attempts to centralise power. That would expose the Tory leader’s weak right flank and box him in politically.
UK Politics
The rights and wrongs of Ed Balls
- 03 February 2011
- 8 comments
Ed Miliband’s choice of shadow chancellor is right. But to take the fight to George Osborne and stay in the ring, he says, Balls must redraw Labour’s boundaries between public and private.
UK Politics
Ed Miliband has it all to play for
- 01 October 2010
- 5 comments
Various pundits think electing the younger brother as Labour leader has made it sure that the Tories will win the next election. With respect . . .
UK Politics
Why we should be grateful to Tony
- 09 September 2010
- 42 comments
The former prime minister brought Labour out of the wilderness and made it a serious player again.
UK Politics
Too bad for Balls that he has baggage
- 26 August 2010
- 19 comments
Damned for his loyalty to Gordon Brown and a thuggish tendency, the shadow schools secretary is the best economist of the Labour candidates. And that matters in the current climate.
Economy
The sperm lottery
- 10 December 2009
- 3 comments
Our tax system is inequitable, but it seems neither main party is capable of change – Labour is obsessed with redistribution and the Tories with inheritance tax. What is to be done?
Economy
How to mend a broken Britain
- 07 May 2009
- 3 comments
Neither of the major parties has a credible plan for limiting the damage caused by borrow-spend-and-tax economics. So what is to be done?
Economy
After the big squeeze
- 19 February 2009
- 36 comments
This is not the New Depression, but we are on the way to discovering how the New Capitalism will operate argues economist Irwin Stelzer. And in an online exclusive, Vince Cable calls for bonuses to be linked to long-term performance.
Politics
NS Essay - 'Unless Gordon Brown can get a grip on government policy, and soon, and reverse course on some of his cherished policies, he will almost certainly lose to the Tories, who seem to be selecting a little child to lead them out of the wilderness'
- 07 November 2005
By Irwin Stelzer: The leading American economist, who has advised both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, foresees almost certain doom for the Chancellor
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - A tide that cannot be turned
- 16 April 2001
Irwin Stelzer argues that economic self-interest is a better guide to immigration policy than humanitarianism
