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Austerity’s second dimension: why fiscal sustainability requires more than cuts
20th December 2014
- Duncan Sim
How should public borrowing evolve over the years to come? Ensuring the sustainability of public spending is essential to intergenerational fairness, since otherwise today’s young people will pay for the advantages enjoyed by current generations while receiving none of these opportunities themselves.
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Are young people being short-changed over pensions?
19th December 2014
Pensions are inherently an intergenerational issue. To a greater or lesser extent, all the different types of pension scheme rely on one generation making a claim upon the productivity of the next one.
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Will Age Decide the 2015 Election?
18th December 2014
The 2015 General Election will be fascinating on many levels, not least because of the emergence of the UKIP vote. However, there are other factors that could affect the election result more profoundly, among them – most notably from an intergenerational point of view – voter age and cohort size.
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The Intergenerational Case for an Asset Tax
17th December 2014
The issues of intergenerational inequality and asset inequality are closely linked in Britain today. Yet despite the fact that inequality more generally is increasingly recognised as a problem, neither of these factors receives the recognition it should in public debate.
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A Department for Education and Leadership
16th December 2014
If there is just one character trait that pupils should leave school accomplished in, it should be that embodied by a one Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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The intergenerational divide in housing
16th December 2014
Margaret Thatcher famously said she wanted Britain to become a “property-owning democracy”, an aspiration that has been echoed ever since by politicians of every persuasion. However, the dream of home-ownership is rapidly turning into a nightmare for millions of young people across the country, who face a growing struggle just to find adequate housing at a price that they can afford.
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Architecture and Happiness – or who deserves good design
15th December 2014
I am a chief executive of a small housing association that has a modest development programme, and we take the view that good design of new developments is very important. I am aware that there is a big tension between good design and producing lower cost ‘boxes’.
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The Intergenerational State of the Nation: why is fairness to grandchildren such a hot topic?
15th December 2014
The UK has started to wake up to a new dimension of social justice. For decades the focus of many campaigners has been on fairness to today’s poor and disadvantaged, but it is now becoming clear that our government is handing out benefits today at the expense of our children and grandchildren.
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Money Creation and Society: The beginning of the debate on how money is created
12th December 2014
The Chancellor’s autumn statement shows how much scrutiny parliament places on how money is spent, with relatively small changes to budgets generating either applause or outrage. But parliament has a habit of completely overlooking more fundamental questions about money, questions such as: who should be allowed to create it in the first place?
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Talking to bankers: Maths and morals
12th December 2014
I recently asked a prominent mathematician who once ran a hedge fund, Doyne Farmer, whether seeking to make a riskless profit was ethical. I don’t think he understood the question. Mathematics has always been part of finance but with the re-introduction of derivatives markets in the 1970s and their growth in the nineties, ‘quants’, trained in engineering, physics and mathematics, came to dominate the ‘casino banking’ that is widely criticised.
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