Posts Tagged spending cuts
A Brave New World
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Economics, Politics, Social Cohesion, Tax and Spend on 21/03/2011
Today I attended a Thames Gateway London Partnership seminar; ‘Financing the Future of the Thames Gateway’. The Seminar provided an interesting insight into how local governments are beginning to grapple with the new economic climate, and more importantly, the new expectations placed upon them by the Coalition’s devolution and localism policies.
No pain, no gain? Perhaps for some, but not for all
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Economics, Politics, Social Cohesion, Tax and Spend on 28/02/2011
Today the Cobden Centre blog covered a new research paper by two Harvard Economists, Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna. The paper examined fiscal stimuli and fiscal adjustments, and what factors were correlated with their success.
When I hear the word culture, I reach for my wallet
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Economics, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Politics on 28/10/2010
This has not been a good week for culture. A pincer movement has been occurring, with rumours that the state of Qatar is looking to buy Christie’s, and the decimation of the Arts Council. While of course unrelated, both have the potential to undermine Britain’s status as a cultural standard-bearer, the former through over-emphasising culture as a product and the latter through understating its value. In the so-called ‘Age of Austerity’, it appears that culture has stopped being a priceless necessity and become just another luxury good that can be accrued or done without. Read the rest of this entry »
Money for social housing can be found
Posted by Nick Cowen in Social Security, Tax and Spend on 19/10/2010
The £6 billion council house budget is likely to be one of the major casualties of this week’s spending review. The National Housing Federation has said it is expecting “doomsday” cuts that will severely slow down the construction of affordable housing. But there are a few ways of cutting this budget while saving housing construction, writes Carolina Bracken.