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Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist blog:
Did economists fail us over Brexit?

12 July 2016

You may have heard the jokes about economists equivocating and squabbling. Ronald Reagan had the best one, about an edition of Trivial Pursuit designed for economists: ''There are 100 questions, 3,000 answers.''

John Van Reenen, the outgoing director of the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, doesn't think the profession should be too down on itself. ''I'm proud of what we did'', he says, and had economists engaged more ''in my frank view, it would not have made a jot of difference.'' Van Reenen has a point; there is a limit to how much experts can achieve by simply presenting the facts.

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The complete set of papers published in the CEP Brexit Analysis Series can be seen herer

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John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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