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Michael Burleigh

Michael Burleigh

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Michael Burleigh, a senior fellow at LSE IDEAS, is the author of 14 books, including Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder (Picador Macmillan, 2021).

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    Killer Politics

    Jun 18, 2021 Michael Burleigh considers the history of assassination, its abiding place in popular culture, and its comeback as a tactic.

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    Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality?

    Kenneth Rogoff

    The view that central-bank interest-rate policy can and should be the main driving force behind greater income equality is stupefyingly naive, no matter how often it is stated. Central banks can do more to address the inequality problem, but they cannot do everything.

     argues that monetary policy did not cause, and largely cannot mitigate, increasing income and wealth disparities.
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