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Remain campaign a victim of its own left liberal conceits?

20 July 2016

A couple of thoughtful pieces to throw into the melee post-referendum. First Tim Harford in today's FT
And to the idea that economists don't know what they are talking about (a new broadly held myth scaled up by the fact no one saw the crash coming), he has this to note: The Institute for Fiscal Studies is full of experts on tax and household income; the Centre for Economic Performance studies globalisation, technology and education. Blaming these people for not foreseeing the collapse of Lehman Brothers is like blaming a brain surgeon for the spread of obesity.

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