An exchange 25 years later between Professor Stephen Nickell and Tim Congdon

After the 1981 Budget, 364 university economists in Britain wrote to The Timesto complain about the tightness of macroeconomic policy, prompted by the plans in the Budget to cut public sector borrowing by some £3.3 billion, mainly by increasing taxes. It is now a commonplace view that the 364 were w...

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