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High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity (2022)
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O'Donovan, N. (2022). High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity. [Blog style article]

The government aims to shift the UK towards a high-skill, high-wage growth model, based on investment in education. Nick O’Donovan explores how this ambition was shared by New Labour politicians in the 1990s, and what lessons we can learn from the sh... Read More about High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity.

Autumn budget 2021: experts react (2021)
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Gheyoh Ndzi, E., Tziamalis, A., Donaldson, C., Alexiadou, D., Jones, E. T., Legrenzi, G., …McCabe, S. (2021). Autumn budget 2021: experts react. [Blog Style Article]

One-off wealth taxes: what can we learn from history? (2020)
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O'Donovan, N., Advani, A., Chamberlain, E., Summers, A., Adam, S., Miller, H., & Bach, S. (2020). One-off wealth taxes: what can we learn from history?. [Blog style article]

Over the last century, a number of countries have tried to introduce one-off wealth taxes or capital levies in response to major crises, with varying degrees of success. These examples offer valuable lessons for policy-makers exploring such an option... Read More about One-off wealth taxes: what can we learn from history?.