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Coverage from 2023

The Guardian
Brexit food trade barriers have cost UK households £7bn, report finds

Researchers from the Centre for Economic Performance, from the London School of Economics, estimate that extra barriers on EU food imports have pushed up bills by £250 on average since Brexit.  ... Read more...

24 May 2023

Financial Times
Economist Daniel Chandler: ‘Shareholders have all the power. It doesn’t have to be that way.’

Daniel Chandler, the author of 'Free and Equal', makes the case for workplace democracy - drawing on Rawlsian principles to disentangle modern-day political debates. Interviewed by Henry Mance.  ... Read more...

22 May 2023

Economy 2030
The Economy 2030 Inquiry: two years in

The Economy 2030 Inquiry examines the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating this change.  For the past two years, resear... Read more...

19 May 2023

The Guardian
If Labour is to succeed it needs not just new policies, but a whole new philosophy

After four general election defeats, the Labour party seems likely to form the next government. In this Guardian opinion piece, Daniel Chandler shares his view that, for the Labour party to succeed, it needs not just new... Read more...

14 April 2023

The Guardian
How much should parents get involved in kids’ education? I’m an expert, and a dad, and even I’m confused

New research suggests extra activities and help with homework have little effect – but the question is more complicated than it at first appears. Lee Elliot Major discusses what is important when it comes to educat... Read more...

13 April 2023

Financial Times
Alan Manning: 'Achieving growth by just having more people is not what we should aim for'

Alan Manning, the UK government's former immigration advisor, considers whether Britain's post-Brexit migrant strategy has worked. ... Read more...

8 March 2023

Financial Times
Make wellbeing central to public policy

Richard Layard explains the benefits of making wellbeing a core public policy. ... Read more...

7 March 2023

The Economist
For Britain to grow faster it needs better managers

John Van Reenen and Nick Bloom's study of management practices suggests that more than half of the productivity gap between Britain and the US is due to poor management. ... Read more...

31 January 2023

Financial Times
How London's property market became an inheritocracy

Without inherited wealth or a leg-up from the Bank of Mum and Dad, prospective first-time buyers are forced to abandon dreams of home ownership. Paul Cheshire describes the state of affairs for first-time buyers in Londo... Read more...

27 January 2023

The Economist
A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

The Economist covers Stephan Heblich, Stephen J. Redding and Hans-Joachim Voth's work on Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution in this article, reporting on the causes of the Industrial Revolution.  ... Read more...

17 January 2023