Manning, Alan (2011) The recent debate over the 50p tax rate illustrates that academic debates conducted through newspaper letters pages are rarely productive: economists have an obligation to provide serious evidence for their claims. British Politics and Policy at LSE (15 Sep 2011) Blog Entry.
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Abstract
Last week 20 economists wrote to the Financial Times urging the government to scrap the 50% marginal tax rate on incomes over £150,000. Alan Manning argues that while it is important for academics to influence debate on public policy, such ‘group’ letters are more about who is signing them than the content that they contain.
| Item Type: | Website (Blog Entry) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Author |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| Sets: | Departments > Economics Collections > British Politics and Policy at LSE Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Sep 2011 14:14 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/38406/ |
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