@NeilDotObrien Only fringe cranks dispute that Brexit will make the U K poorer. It certainly frees us to pursue political tastes (eg keeping foreigners out, also economically costly) about which one can be neutral or not.
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes views about the economics of Brexit are overwhelmingly shared by the profession, as revealed in @thetimes letter I organized and reports by HMT, @NIESRorg, @CEP_LSE, @UKandEU , @CER_EU , @OECDeconomy , @bankofengland .
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland ‘Neutrality’ on those issues would simply indicate incompetence or having contaminated the economics with politics.
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland It’s important not to stop litigating these points as they bear on the new debate which will be about not Remain/Leave but the distance we engineer from the EU as we Leave.
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland If political parties choose a stance on EU issues that is motivated by minimizing economic costs academic discourse can’t be expected to abdicate Econ analysis by constructing a fake neutrality between party positions.
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland If a hypothetical London pressure group started campaigning to dismantle the UK single market, after Brexit, so that London could strike new trade deals with Singapore, a clear indictator of competence on the part of macro/trade academic Twitter timelines would not be neutrality.
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland The exchange I'm responding to is most bizarre for someone of my profession and generation, indicating how completely the Tory party has turned away from mainstream capitalist/economics thinking in pursuit of its new nationalist program.
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland [That should not be taken as this economist's support for Labour, whose leadership has rather obviously broken away from that same capitalist/econ thinking IMO].
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland @thetimes letter, for anyone who inexplicably missed this at the time in 2016 despite wall to wall coverage by broadcast media: thetimes.co.uk/article/econom…
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland Reminded of the surreal exchange I had with another of the Brexit tribe, the seemingly economically illiterate @MarcusFysh, the another datapoint confounding the idea that our Parliament is a meritocracy.
@NeilDotObrien @jdportes @thetimes @NIESRorg @CEP_LSE @UKandEU @CER_EU @OECDeconomy @bankofengland @MarcusFysh For the Brexit nostalgics amongs you, here is that exchange.....
