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As Britain enters a severe recession that will lead to large fiscal deficits and growing public debt, a question presents itself — when are deficits and debt too large?
Far from a problem, moderate rates of price increase signal a healthy, expanding economy.
Market economies tend to generate unemployment not full employment. Real economies produce many goods and services with quite different process of price determination. Governments and central banks at most influence not determine money in circulation. Inflation is not the result of too much money. That is its consequence.
Preventing speculation and complementing fiscal policy provide strong motivations for monetization.
Robert Skidelsky argues the ousting of Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid points toward a broader global shift in economic policy.
Professor Jan Toporowski and Dr Jo Michell introduce their new paper for PEF, examining the scope and operations of the Bank of England’s monetary policy.
94 academics and representatives of civil society organisations call for Mark Carney’s successor to be someone who will foster a pluralistic policymaking culture.
We have just over a decade to limit climate catastrophe. The Bank of England should act to ensure climate-related financial risks are reflected in its monetary operations.
Does it matter if Mark Carney stays or goes? Ann Pettifor writes on central banker groupthink around financial globalisation.
“The periodic interest rate announcements so avidly reported by the media obscure and may even undermine the serious work that the Bank of England should be doing.”
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