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Over the last decade the world has experienced a series of profound economic problems - from the financial crash to the climate crisis, from rising inequality to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Economics is changing to try and solve these problems.
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Can public development corporations get Britain building again?

Housing
12.11.2026
Exploring how public development corporations could help get Britain building again, and whether the government's fiscal rules are standing in the way.
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A small-change budget in a time of big shocks

Fiscal Policy
4.11.26
Exploring how policy debates on energy support, tax and defence all resolved in the direction of minimal change for the new government’s first budget.

Defence or warm homes?

Industrial Strategy
27.10.26
Defence, homes or heat pumps? Exploring the economics of Britain’s rearmament.

How improving household incomes can stop the far right

Inflation
22.10.26
Plus, forecasting the economic impacts of El Niño, funding defence through cuts to Warm Homes Plan and more.

Beyond Lula and Bolsonaro

15.10.26
Digging into the economics behind the Brazilian election.
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