The shortest economic suicide note in history? How the mini-budget fails to help long-run growth

The UK has recently announced tax cuts and spending increases which exceed those implemented during the pandemic. John Van Reenen believes a reckoning will be unavoidable. He writes that policies for good growth are a long slog, a marathon of difficult supply-side reforms and not a mad dash for growth.

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John Van Reenen

26 September 2022

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2022/09/26/the-shortest-economic-suicide-note-in-history-how-the-mini-budget-fails-to-help-long-run-growth/

This work is published under POID and the CEP's Growth programme.

This publication comes under the following CEP theme: UK productivity and policy