

Dr Carolina Alves
Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics
Dr Carolina Alves is a Research Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Carolina's research interests include Macroeconomics, Money, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Public Debt, Financialisation, Marxist Economics and Latin America. She tweets @cacrisalves.


John Weeks – Obituaries and Tributes
” John Weeks was a rigorous and progressive academic economist, committed to good economic policy and political action; at the same time he was a very kind, supportive and loyal colleague and friend”

The OBR approach is wrong – PEF Council letter to FT
We have reviewed the fiscal sustainability report published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on 14 July 2020. We believe that its approach to economics is wrong. The view it presents does not, in our opinion, help economic recovery.

COVID-19: How the UK’s economic model contributes toward a mismanagement of the crisis
Carolina Alves and Farwa Sial discuss the efficiency of the UK’s economic response to the COVID-19 crisis and explain why it does not directly support households but companies