How to cut the cost of living

When it comes to helping working people, a tax cut to hand would be the cancellation of the Health and Social Care Levy.

David Gauke: Johnson’s health and social care plan. A betrayal of Conservative principles? No – because, at one level, there aren’t any.

This can give the Tories a tremendous advantage in a democracy because the public, as a whole, does not have fixed views either.

Howard Flight: Sunak’s Keynesian interventions are working. Here’s what the Treasury should consider next.

I would hope it has researched which areas of expenditure have the largest spending multiplier effects.

Carsten Jung: Why Sunak’s budget is at odds with mainstream macroeconomics

Could more spending bring the economy back quicker? Wouldn’t it be more cost-effective to ensure public finances are on a sustainable footing?

Ryan Bourne: A lesson from this pandemic. State action fails even when the case for it is strongest.

I was regaled with horror story after story on access to even existing testing. Confidence in the “moonshot” is non-existent.

Ryan Bourne: The Right’s glory was its mastery of economic policy. Why has it given up even thinking about it?

Precisely what does Johnson think was wrong with the 2010-2018 deficit reduction agenda? Who knows? The Tories don’t have a clear economic story.

Why the Right should make its peace with the State

It is not so much like a parent or a nanny as a brother. Not Big Brother, to be sure, but Little Brother – to be treated both with sibling rivalry and understated love.

Ryan Bourne: The post-Brexit vote economy. Our new Prime Minister must resist the temptation of Keynesianism and maintain fiscal sanity

The second in our series of pieces on economic policy after the referendum decision.

Heresy of the week: Eliminating the deficit is the same thing as paying down our debts

It’s the debt-to-GDP ratio that counts when it comes to assessments of national solvency

An urgent question: What is going right with the British economy?

Britain finds herself between a ‘Keynesian’ America and a ‘Monetarist’ EU – but is doing better than both of them

How the Nazis are still distorting our view of art

The art world should be grateful for politicians who don’t take too close an interest in culture

Scott Kelly: The myth of Mr Butskell

The 60th anniversary of this composite figure provides an opportunity to lay him to rest.

Stimulus versus austerity: What if both sides are wrong?

Larry Elliot is the economics editor of the Guardian, but don’t let that put you off. Unlike the Labour frontbench,… Read more »

Heresy of the week: Fiscal conservatism has been betrayed by people who call themselves conservatives

Good news! Share values are reaching new records – not only in Britain, but in America too! But, here, courtesy… Read more »

Neo-monetarism – the most important economic theory you’ve probably never heard of

It’s been a long time since rival economic theories were of such political importance as they are now. Before 2008,… Read more »