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Gideon Rachman: Greece threatens more than the euro
John Lloyd: Boomers rage against dying of the light
Michael Skapinker: The purpose of business is to win respect
Jagdish Bhagwati: A new approach to tackling climate change
Editorial: Brown’s great rage inside the machine
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Editorial: Dutch departure saps Afghan effort
Global Insight: Mure Dickie, Japan calm as treasured status slips away
Market Insight: Jonathan Bell, China at risk of a home-grown financial crisis
Notebook: Brian Groom, The wizardry palls for Purnell
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From the FT’s comment section:
Clive Crook: Obama gets ready to risk it all
George Soros: The euro will face bigger tests than Greece
Wendy Carlin and Colin Mayer: Britain should not fear foreign ownership
Wolfgang Münchau: Inflation must not become a moving target
Editorial: Couldn’t care less for the elderly
Editorial: Congress must act on US fiscal policy
Editorial: Tax and citizenship
Global Insight: Alan Beattie, Centre-left fails to capitalise on crisis
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From the FT’s comment section:
John Lloyd: The old order reasserts itself, in Britain and beyond
Christopher Caldwell: Too much brain on Capitol Hill
Ed Crooks: Outside Edge: Pay up for the glory that was Greece
Matthew Green: Man in the News: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
Editorial: Labour pains
Editorial: Oil in the water
Editorial: Corporate climate
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How many economists does it take to change one’s mind about when to cut the UK’s public deficit?

Twenty wrote an open letter to the Sunday Times last weekend calling for public spending cuts to start this year – the position favoured by the opposition Conservative party.

But 60 appear on the FT’s letters page this morning – in two separate letters – to back chancellor Alistair Darling’s view that it would jeopardise a fragile recovery to cut the deficit before 2011.

For some reason, Googling my question mainly produces vaguely familiar answers involving light bulbs.

Still, one or two are worth wheeling out again:

1) How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?

Given 1,000 economists there will be 10 theoretical economists with different theories on how to change the light bulb and 990 empirical economists labouring to determine which theory is the “correct” one, and everyone will still be in the dark.

2) How many Keynesian economists?

All of them. Because then you will generate employment and more consumption, dislocating the aggregate demand to the right.

3) How many Chicago School economists?

None. If the light bulb needed changing , the market would have done it already.

4) How many mainstream economists?

Two. One to assume the existence of the ladder and one to change the bulb.

5) How many Marxists?

None – the bulb contains within it the seeds of its own revolution.

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