Adam Posen
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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They're coming from a good place to care about this.
It's not neoliberal, it's the evidence.
The evidence isn't there.
And so the implication is
Not that you shouldn't care about unemployment, you should have temporary measures.
Of fiscal policy, like we did during COVID, to extend unemployment insurance, to extend health insurance, to make it less miserable for people who are unemployed.
But the inflation is probably the thing that's more likely to get out of control, in my view.
there?
I think I said to you when you asked about this last year, Joe, that
The single biggest call I got wrong in terms of analysis and forecasting in my career was twenty twelve at Bank of England.
I and some others on the committee at the time, but I'm responsible for me, said
Yeah, productivity's been lower the last few years to twenty twelve because of the financial crisis, but it's gonna come back up because it's been the same long term trend since eighteen fifty.
And and there was nothing to breaking of a a trend from
Yeah, yeah, I don't remember if it's eighteen fifty or eighteen sixty, but there's some incredibly long data series we have for UK productivity growth.
And even if you watch it, it's just a straight upward line.
And even the Great Depression sort of makes a little blip and World War Two makes a little blip and this and then suddenly in 2008, it goes flat.
And I and a bunch of other people said, Well, it's not like the blitz, right?
And so productivity growth is gonna come back up to trend.
It never did.
The UK is the one rich economy, high income economy, where productivity growth not just went down for a while, but kept going down.
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