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Andrew Sissons

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

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

Oct 17

Andrew Sissons

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

Externalities can last a very long time

Oct 3

Andrew Sissons

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

For cheap stuff

Sep 25

Andrew Sissons

Against cheap stuff

When I was young, my mother briefly instituted a boycott against Nestle in our household. In her telling, it was because they were giving…

Sep 19

Against cheap stuff

Sep 19

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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

Grassy field on a hillside with many ridges ploughed into it

Sep 12

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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

The Baumol effect: not a disease but a cure

Jul 18

Andrew Sissons

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

Will AI transform economic growth?

May 21

Andrew Sissons

Why we shouldn’t worry about borrowing to tackle climate change

Even if you care about fiscal sustainability and nothing else, the case for government investment in climate change is overwhelming.

Apr 19

Why we shouldn’t worry about borrowing to tackle climate change

Apr 19

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Lots of little things: what if there are no big answers to productivity growth?

One of the core problems with UK policy-making is that it is dominated by a quest for big, elegant, all-solving ideas that can fix…

Mar 5

Lots of little things: what if there are no big answers to productivity growth?

Mar 5

Andrew Sissons

Why a carbon tax cannot be the only solution to climate change

Economics has always had a fairly straightforward solution to climate change: a carbon tax. If you raise the price of carbon to its…

Feb 22

Why a carbon tax cannot be the only solution to climate change

Feb 22

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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