A Leaky Bucket: How Britain’s Consumption Tax System Undermines its Economy
Abhay Venkitaraman Illustration by Will Allen The UK’s Value Added Tax (VAT), a tax on household consumption, spares many goods and...
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Syed Hussain
Nov 10, 20235 min read
The Price of Imperialism : Israel, Oil, and the looming Global Recession
By Syed Hussain The Israel-Palestine war has profound and wide-ranging implications for the global economy that extend far beyond its...
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Kavisha Manoj
Mar 17, 20235 min read
Editorial: Holes in Doughnut Economics?
By Kavisha Manoj Despite the deep entrenchment of neoclassical economics, the past 2 decades have seen a variety of alternative economic...
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Warwick Think Tank
Jan 31, 20236 min read
Re-Envisioning the Command Economy
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War and lifted previous restrictions for capitalist nations, allowing...
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Kavisha Manoj
Jan 17, 20234 min read
Investment Zones the answer to the Levelling up agenda?
Political history of Investment Zones Similar to the Enterprise Zones promoted by Thatcher and Osborne, the Investment Zones announced by...
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Warwick Think Tank
Dec 14, 20226 min read
Editorial: Japan: playground for technocrats?
Once thought to be the next superpower economy, Japan is an extremely interesting case of a country that utilised its war economy to its...
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Finlay Healy
Nov 15, 20224 min read
Private Finance holding us to Ransom: rapid decarbonisation is impeded by a policy of appeasement
Economics tells a lot of stories to make it seem inevitable the things it tells us to do. When it comes to climate action, the orthodox...
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Vriddhi Khattar
Oct 28, 20223 min read
Blackness and Banking: Closing the Racial Wealth gap
A 2020 article by CNBC offered that the racial wealth gap in the United States would be solved through education on financial...
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Kavisha Manoj
Oct 24, 20224 min read
Trussonomics: a lesson in credibility
After just 44 days of economic and political upheaval, Liz Truss announced her resignation as the PM of the country. By the end of the...
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Finlay Healy
Oct 13, 20224 min read
Index-Linked Gilts: Bad Policy that bear the mark of their time
Index-Linked Gilts are in part a standard U.K. Government bond. An investor loans money to the government on the promise that the funds...
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Jhanvi Mehta
Mar 10, 20224 min read
Turkey's Economic Meltdown: 'Erdoganomics' and Spiralling Inflation
Turkey faces an economic meltdown as a result of Erdogan’s dismal macro-economic competency. The annual inflation rate has soared to a...
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Eve Dunkley
Feb 22, 20224 min read
Can We Really Smoke the Kremlin Out? The Tough Reality of Economic Sanctions
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are at their highest since 2014 with as many as 190,000 Russian troops currently deployed at the...
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Warwick Think Tank
Feb 1, 20224 min read
Plight of the Migrant Workers: Covid-19's Paralysis of Global Labour Flows
This article has been written by contributor Sharanya Chakraborty The Covid 19 pandemic led to a halt in global migration flows by the...
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Warwick Think Tank
Dec 2, 20214 min read
Unleashing Britain’s Potential? Two years of Johnsonism Under Review
This article has been written by contributor James Baldwin Two years have passed since the resounding election victory of Boris Johnson...
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Eve Dunkley
Nov 25, 20214 min read
Billionaires Beware: Congressional Toils and Trials
On Wednesday 27th October, Oregon Senator and chair of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden unveiled his plans for a new tax that...
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Warwick Think Tank
Nov 23, 20214 min read
Covid Plan B – What, Why and If?
This article has been written by contributor Harry Ward Around this time last year England crashed into its second Covid-19 lockdown. At...
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Susbin Shrestha
Oct 21, 20214 min read
Are We Entering Another Winter Of Discontent?
Above expectation inflation, astronomical energy prices and shortages across the board have aroused a profound sense of uncertainty and...
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Eve Dunkley
Oct 14, 20214 min read
Evergrande- Perhaps Not To Be Ever Grand?
The Evergrande Group, China’s leading real estate developer, has found itself with debt totalling over $300 billion, while it has over...
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Armandas Kondroška
Oct 12, 20214 min read
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble.
On September 7, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. From now on, citizens can buy...
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