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The Cake Equation

UK politicians of all stripes often promise to tax more and tax less — having their cake and eating it. But cake is now in short supply…

5d ago

The Cake Equation

5d ago

What would happen if you moved Manhattan to a safer place?

Manhattan is on the front line of climate change. What would happen if, rather than trying to protect the city, we moved it somewhere else?

Jan 9

What would happen if you moved Manhattan to a safer place?

Jan 9

What can governments do about the cost of living?

The cost of living has become a defining political issue. But there is little governments can do once cost of living crises have begun…

Nov 20, 2024

What can governments do about the cost of living?

Nov 20, 2024

The state should be there when things go wrong in our lives

Some years ago, just after I had become a parent for the first time and got a job I probably shouldn’t have got, I was stopped in my tracks…

Oct 17, 2024

The state should be there when things go wrong in our lives

Oct 17, 2024

Externalities can last a very long time

Britain’s post-industrial landscape is pock-marked with derelict factories, diverted rivers and areas of seemingly prime land that lie…

Oct 3, 2024

Externalities can last a very long time

Oct 3, 2024

For cheap stuff

I wrote last week about the downsides of cheap stuff. But some things really should be cheap. Unfortunately, we tend to underfund them…

Sep 25, 2024

For cheap stuff

Sep 25, 2024

Against cheap stuff

When I was young, my mother instituted a boycott against Nestle, because they had been giving frformula milk to mothers with new born…

Sep 19, 2024

Against cheap stuff

Sep 19, 2024

A bad idea: give every 18 year old their own plot of land

I think this is a bad idea, but I’m going to write it down anyway: whenever someone in the UK turns 18, we should give them a plot of land…

Sep 12, 2024

Grassy field on a hillside with many ridges ploughed into it

Sep 12, 2024

The Baumol effect: not a disease but a cure

When productivity rises in one industry, wages rise in all industries. This is one of the most important forces in economics, but it is…

Jul 18, 2024

The Baumol effect: not a disease but a cure

Jul 18, 2024

Will AI transform economic growth?

What would need to be true for AI to significantly raise the growth rate? Here are three tests to judge the scale of AI’s economic impact

May 21, 2024

Will AI transform economic growth?

May 21, 2024

Andrew Sissons

Andrew Sissons

I’m an economist and policy wonk who’s worked in a range of different fields. I mostly write about economic growth and climate change, and sometimes both.

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