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Top economist: Keep spending

Joseph Stiglitz has urged Gordon Brown to reject "fiscal fetishism", defy the markets and maintain, or even extend, the fiscal stimulus of the British economy.

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09:49 | News

source icon Gordon Brown urged to concentrate on spending London Evening Standard

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source icon UK sales fall prompts fears of 'double-dip' recession The Daily Telegraph

07:00 | News

source icon Forget cuts and keep spending, Brown told The Independent

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source icon How to fix the recession

Stiglitz wants Gordon Brown – who he met for dinner yesterday evening – to hold his nerve, defy the markets and ignore those who want him to start reducing the budget deficit, which is pretty much everyone it would seem.

Joseph Stiglitz interview | The Independent

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source icon Has the left won the first round in spending cuts?

_contribution by Adam Lent [1]_ Back when cuts mania [2] was all the rage during the conference season of 2009, only the TUC, others on the left and serious commentators like Martin Wolf argued that c...

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