Warwick Lightfoot, Author at Politeia

Warwick Lightfoot is a monetary economist who served as Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1989 and 1992. Now the Head of Economics and Social Policy at Policy Exchange, he is author of Sorry We Have No Money: Britain’s Economic Problem (Searching Finance, 2010) and his Politeia publications include For Better or For Worse? The Economic Record of the Labour Government (2005).

3 posts

Blog

Banking on Recovery: The role of regulation

By Warwick Lightfoot
July 26, 2013

This week the Business Secretary the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP criticised the Bank of England for holding back the recovery by imposing excessive financial burdens on...

Blog

‘Further Steps Towards Deficit Reduction’, by Warwick Lightfoot

By Warwick Lightfoot
June 26, 2012

The Emergency Budget in June 2010 set out a necessary plan to eliminate an unsustainable structural budget deficit.

Publication Archive

‘For Better or For Worse? The Economic Record of the Labour Government’, Warwick Lightfoot

By Warwick Lightfoot
July 25, 2005

‘For Better or For Worse? The Economic Record of the Labour Government’, Warwick Lightfoot July 2005 Press Release

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