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Andy Haldane says there should be ‘cause to pause’ amid Treasury fears policy will not raise any money

If nothing else, economists are good at naming things. Malthusianism, Abenomics or, my personal favourite, Baumol's cost disease. But for policymakers, the most important theory is perhaps the Laffer curve, named after the American economist Arthur Laffer, who argued there is a theoretical tax rate at which maximum revenue is…

Chancellor’s warnings hampered post-election ‘sense of refresh’, says Andy Haldane

The new government has promised things will be different: but when it comes to spending, we seem stuck on old Tory policies