
Warwick Lightfoot
Senior Fellow
Warwick Lightfoot is Senior Fellow, Economics and Social Policy at Policy Exchange. He is an economist, with specialist interests in monetary economics, labour markets, and public finance. He has served as Special Adviser to three Chancellors of the Exchequer, and a Secretary of State for Employment. Warwick was a treasury economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland, and has also been Economics Editor of The European. His many articles on economics and public policy have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, and in specialist journals ranging from the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator, to the Investors Chronicle and Financial World. His books include Sorry We Have No Money — Britain’s Economic Problem.

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Brexit economic opportunity from the perspective of the Minneapolis Fed
by Warwick Lightfoot | Jul 16, 2017
Whether economies prosper is determined by their economic policies. Size and factor endowments appear to have much less of a role in determining economic outcomes than the character of the policies that a political community pursues. Open and flexible economies that...
Central banks face challenges that go directly to the heart of their original purpose and function
by Warwick Lightfoot | Jul 9, 2017
Central banks are getting ready to end the unconventional policies that they developed in response to the credit crunch and Great Recession ten years ago. Interest rate setting committees are looking at how their expanded balance sheets can be contracted and how rates...
Is it time to think about spending EU-funded science money better?
by Warwick Lightfoot | Jun 25, 2017
Science policy offers a good example of both Brexit’s practical challenges and its genuine opportunities. British universities have done well in attracting funding from EU programmes: some 16 per cent of UK university research funding comes from EU grants....
Election 2017 – Benjamin Disraeli: ‘There is no finality in politics’
by Warwick Lightfoot | Jun 12, 2017
‘I have done a terrible, terrible thing. I have voted Labour for the first time. My father and grandfather would turn in their graves, but I was worried about my pension. All I have is my house and the state pension that I manage on.’ These were the words of a typical...Support Us
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