Adrian Pabst
@AdrianPabst1
Politics Prof @UniKentPolitics; Deputy Dir @NIESRorg; Contrib. Writer @NewStatesman; author of Postliberal Politics (published in June 2021)
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The #UK needs to translate its plans for long-term economic #growth into a clear set of priorities in order to reverse current trends and end the 15 years of poor #productivity it has experienced 📈 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @TPIProductivity hubs.la/Q03yTl1h0
The #UK needs to translate its plans for long-term economic #growth into a clear set of priorities in order to reverse current trends and end the 15 years of poor #productivity it has experienced 📈 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @TPIProductivity hubs.la/Q03yTl1h0
#WeekendReading 🔖 In this #blog our @AdrianPabst1 lists the main pro-#productivity policies the Government should adopt, and outlines the key challenges the Govt will much likely face to implement them ⬇️ hubs.la/Q03xTg2m0
What has happened to the UK economy since after the Financial #Crisis of 2008? Our #LivingStandard review goes under the bonnet and tries to explain the main reasons - Read it here 👉 hubs.la/Q03xQZky0 #UKeconomy #GFC #inequality
⚡️OUT NOW⚡️ In our latest #MondayInterview, just published, @AdrianPabst1 lists the main pro-#productivity policies the Government should adopt, and outlines the key challenges the Govt will much likely face to implement them ⬇️⬇️ @RoyalEconSoc hubs.la/Q03x0MdG0
.@dsmitheconomics nails it in this piece on our mounting debt problems. Note the corollary that the fiscal rules are not fit for purpose follows so clearly. @CamEcon @EconSteveM
My Sunday Times piece is a gloomy one: UK government debt is on an unsustainable trajectory and today’s politicians seem unwilling or unable to do anything to stop it: The UK can’t keep muddling through a massive increase in debt thetimes.com/article/eb5125…
The role of policy is to absorb shocks and reduce uncertainty. Yet as my @NIESRorg colleague @HaileyLow_ rightly suggests, the current fiscal rules add to uncertainty by exacerbating speculation as to which taxes go up in the Autumn Budget bbc.com/news/articles/…
#WeekendReading:🔖 Our latest #MondayInterview by Tom Kelsey and @AdrianPabst1 💬 'The Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy demonstrates why posing a dichotomy between free-markets and industrial strategy is a false one' ⬇️ @TPIProductivity hubs.la/Q03vW7170
Huge honour to give a lecture in the Aula Magna at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan — on the occasion of 30th years of its Graduate School of Economics and IR @Unicatt @LucaGCastellin

Our #webinar is now underway, with @AdrianPabst1 chairing it, and introducing @BenEcon33 who has started his presentation highlighting the role #uncertainty has played in the economic backdrop of this first year of #Labour Government Follow the live thread here🧵 ⬇️ 1/
⚡️The countdown is over⚡️ ⌛️ Join us online *tomorrow* from 1-2pm for our #webinar 💻 1⃣ Year In: Assessing the Government’s Economic Approach 📝Sign up here 🖱️⬇️⬇️⬇️ hubs.la/Q03vprwb0
'The Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy demonstrates why posing a dichotomy between free-markets and industrial strategy is a false one' Our latest #MondayInterview by Tom Kelsey and @AdrianPabst1 is out now - Read it here🔓⬇️ @TPIProductivity hubs.la/Q03v8w960
How can we embed pro-#productivity policies across government? Join NIESR and @TPIProductivity to hear an expert panel tackle this important economic question 💬 ⏰ 9 July, 13:30–16:00 📍 Carlton House Terrace, London Register to attend 🎟👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-up-p…
"How is [the Chancellor] going to meet her own fiscal rules come the Autumn Budget? If she isn't going to go for cuts... then it's going to have to be #tax increases." Our Deputy Director @AdrianPabst1 speaks to @TimesRadio's @dominicoc following yesterday's #SpendingReview 🎧👇
Associate Economist Robyn Smith comments on the Chancellor's social housing announcements in today's #SpendingReview 🏘⬇ 8/n 🧵
"Sticking with capital spending projects such as the third runway at #Heathrow will continue a long trend of privileging investment in London and the South-East, which is at odds with the government’s professed commitment of rebalancing the economy towards long-neglected…
"It is now almost inevitable that if [the Chancellor] is to keep to her fiscal rules, she will have to raise taxes in the Autumn Budget" Our Interim Director @EconSteveM as the #SpendingReview begins 👇 2/n 🧵
Our Deputy Director @AdrianPabst1 shares his thoughts ahead of today's #SpendingReview 👇💬
🚨 Follow this thread for our live reactions to the Chancellor's #SpendingReview 🚨 While you wait, don't miss our latest blog by Deputy Director @AdrianPabst1 unpacking what to expect from today's announcements and why it matters 👇 1/n 🧵 niesr.ac.uk/blog/understan…
"It is far from clear how the #SpendingReview will boost living standards [for the poorest 40% of UK households] by the end of this Parliament, especially given that spending cuts will likely hit public services on which the low-income households depend" @AdrianPabst1 ⬇ 3/n 🧵
⚡️OUT NOW ⚡️The Comprehensive #SpendingReview: What to Expect and Why it Matters In our latest #MondayInterview, just published, our Deputy Director @AdrianPabst1 unpacks the key themes ahead of Wednesday's announcements ⬇️ hubs.la/Q03rcV_N0