I hope that people aren’t getting too bored with discussions of inequality, because this is another blog which touches on 2 familiar themes; how income is distributed; and how governments produce the statistics that we use to inform political and economic debates. There is a common assumption that over last few decades the economic performance… Read More How GDP varies between Regions: Inequality, Life Expectancy, Happiness, Austerity, Referendums, Experimental Statistics, and lots more graphs

I have written previously about why the current system for measuring unemployment might not giving us an accurate picture: Unemployments rising in the Chigley End of Town People will have read in the media that UK unemployment is at it’s lowest since the 1970s.    This from the BBC is typical:   I thought that… Read More Why unemployment might be worse than we think (again)