With Plan B, we can have a good economy for a good society
One year on from the Emergency Budget and the Spending Review, it is becoming abundantly clear the coalition government’s austerity plan – Plan A – isn’t working.
Howard Reed
Howard established Landman Economics in 2008. He remains Director. He was previously chief economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Budget 2011: Cutting red tape isn’t a strategy for growth
Howard Reed exposes the flaws in the argument that deregulation is a straight road to higher economic growth.
Are we really all in it together?
Howard Reed reports on how the coalition’s cuts show that the poorest will be hit hardest – particularly single parents families and single pensioners.
Worrying signs of a Lib Dem cave-in on capital gains tax
Dropping progressive manifesto commitments just because they happen to offend the right wing of the Conservative party are becoming a depressingly regular feature of the new administration.