David Blanchflower
Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Economics Editor of the New Statesman, and former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
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Despite what the Government says, people are not better off. And the self-employed are likely to be suffering more than most
09 February 2014 03:03 PM
More self-employed report that they do not have adequate work and want more hours
Emerging-market chaos and the Federal Reserve taper mean this might be as good as it gets for Britain’s economy
02 February 2014 05:35 PM
The mud hit the fan in a number of countries last week
Behind good news headlines on recovery and jobs we are no better off than at the start of this slump
26 January 2014 05:11 PM
Recession will have lasted three years longer than any other in the past 100 years
Are workers’ wages really likely to begin growing again any time soon?
19 January 2014 05:00 PM
The Office for Budget Responsibility looks to be overly optimistic once again
The plight of the young and unemployed is truly scary – and this government seems to have no answers
12 January 2014 01:50 PM
A quarter of long-term unemployed young people have self harmed
My big mistake of 2013? I didn’t spot the pick-up in consumer confidence. Yet Osborne is not vindicated
05 January 2014 04:56 PM
I should have realised that this burst in sentiment predicted a burst of growth
Crisis? What crisis? Just ask the ever-growing numbers of UK and overseas nationals being forced to sleep rough
29 December 2013 03:04 PM
I thought Thatcher’s cardboard box city of rough sleepers outside Waterloo station had gone forever
The workforce is rising in some countries and falling in others. Why? Economists are puzzled …
22 December 2013 06:32 PM
These inactive folks stand ready to return to the labour force if jobs become available
David Blanchflower: George Osborne has failed the very tests he set himself in 2010 – and we are poorer as a result
16 December 2013 12:00 AM
George Osborne has failed the very tests he set himself in 2010 – and we are poorer as a result
15 December 2013 05:17 PM
GDP per capita is lower than it was when the Coalition was formed
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