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John Phelan

John Phelan is a fellow of the Cobden Centre and works as an economist at Center of the American Experiment. He is a graduate of Birkbeck College, University of London, where he earned a BSc in Economics, and of the London School of Economics where he earned an MSc. He worked in finance for ten years before becoming a professional economist. He worked at Capital Economics in London, where he wrote reports ranging from the impact of Brexit on the British economy to the effect of government regulation on cell phone coverage. John has written for City A.M. in London and for The Wall Street Journal in both Europe and the U.S. He has also been published in the journal Economic Affairs.

Book Reviews7 September 20

Book Review: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy

By John Phelan

  This article originally appeared in luckbox magazine, July 2020. In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic outlook for 2020…

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Economics19 August 19

Why Keynes Believed Efforts to Fight Income Inequality Hinder Economic Growth

By John Phelan

he economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) famously said, “in the long run we are all dead.” He wasn’t saying we should ignore the long…

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4 Ways Employers Respond to Minimum Wage Laws (Besides Laying Off Workers)
Economics18 July 19

4 Ways Employers Respond to Minimum Wage Laws (Besides Laying Off Workers)

By John Phelan

Most of you will be familiar with a supply and demand graph. This shows a demand curve, which graphs the relationship between the price…

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Economics9 June 19

Paul Krugman’s Predictions about “Austerity” Aren’t Aging Well

By John Phelan

Paul Krugman’s arguments do not fare well against evidence in a new book written by economists Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi titled,…

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Announcements28 August 18

Free Trade Speech

By John Phelan

I recently had the pleasure of addressing a meeting in Mankato, Minnesota, hosted by the Heritage Foundation on the subject of trade and its role in Minnesota’s…

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Economics5 September 16

China: something must burst

By John Phelan

“I know from a common sense financial standpoint that something has to burst. When a country is losing billions and billions and billions of…

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Media12 August 16

Central Bankers Are All ‘Corbynistas’ Now

By John Phelan

Published in the Wall Street Journal yesterday from John Phelan, “Central Bankers Are All ‘Corbynistas’ Now”: Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/central-bankers-are-all-corbynistas-now-1470858620   When Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy…

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Announcements1 October 15

Economics & International Studies Seminar: John Phelan

By John Phelan

14 October 2015 16:15 – 18:00 John Phelan, Capital Economics “The Road Not Taken – The Hard ECU; Britain’s Alternative to the Euro” In 2009…

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Economics, Media, Money, Press10 April 14

Money derivative creation in the modern economy

By John Phelan

It isn’t often that a Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin starts “A revolution in how we understand economic policy” but, according to some, that…

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Economics11 March 14

Do we have easy money?

By John Phelan

This week marked the fifth anniversary of the 0.5% Bank of England base rate and the Bank of England’s Quantitative Easing program which has…

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