Together with Paul Levine and Simon Wren Lewis, I coordinated a letter to try to gauge the extent of feeling towards the idea that on economic grounds alone, the UK should Remain in the EU.
Simon reproduces the letter on his blog. The letter appears in today’s Times, signed by 196 [214 at 21.5.16] economists in academia and the private sector, and with a follow up news story by Philip Aldrick.
We did not start the letter lightly. Many people we approached, vociferous in their advocacy for Remain, were equally vigorous in dismissing letters as ridiculous or futile. Aren’t the papers full of them these days? What about the letter of 364! How wrong that turned out to be! [I happen to disagree with that]. Others pointed out that if economists spoke out, we’d cause a backlash with those resentful at being told how to vote.
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