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Reflections on whether life is now sh1t

More reflections on miserabilism and its irreducible elements.

Posted byfreethinkingeconomistOctober 11, 2009November 1, 2009Posted inTheoretical musingsTags:conservativism, has life improved, Liberal values, Miserabilism, Teenage Pregnancy11 Comments on Reflections on whether life is now sh1t

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A balancing act: fair solutions to a modern debt crisis
Credit Where It's Due: making QE work for the real economy
Fiscal Rules OK?
Slash and Grow?

c. CentreForum's Greatest Hits

Time's up: why the LibDems should abandon their opposition to tuition fees

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Marginal Revolution
Nick Rowe
Paul Krugman
Stumbling and Mumbling

e. 1976 papers

Cabinet discussions
Some internal papers about taxation etc
The economic background to 1976

f. Books I've been reading

David Simon: Homicide: a year on the killing streets
Denis Healey: The Time of my Life
Keynes: General Theory
Keynes: the Return of the Master
Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist
The view from Number 11
Vintage Mencken

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Is there any alternative?
Captain Obvious strikes: they just should not have been in such a rush
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