You may have seen the "Manifesto for Economic Sense" which Paul Krugman and I are promoting.1 Our aim is to generate a movement of economists who speak out against policies they know to be wrong. In the end, as we know, it is ideas that rule, and I have been shocked by the ideas that now rule, even inside the heads of my tennis friends.
Richard Layard explains the Manifesto for Economic Sense
Richard Layard, 28 June 2012
Topics: Macroeconomic policy, Politics and economics
Tags: austerity, fiscal policy, Manifesto for Economic Sense
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