The Financial Times has an online forum of top international economists but ours is a lot livelier, and we have now reached 50 regular participants, covering everything from house prices to choice in public services, $100 a barrel oil and 'the Steve Nickell conjecture'. Join the discussion here.
On Nickell, I'm already feeling a little sorry for whoever is his replacement come May. Four ex-monetary policy committee members have sparked the Treasury into insisting that it will be somebody of the highest intellectual calibre, from a long list of high-reputation international economists. A few years ago, when Chris Allsopp replaced Charles Goodhart, one member of the Commons Treasury committee (Brian Sedgemore) said it was like replacing Arsenal with Kidderminster Harriers. And Allsopp was a respected academic economist ...
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