Academics attack George Osborne budget surplus proposal
by Phillip Inman economics correspondent from on (#B3CS)
Thomas Piketty, David Blanchflower and other experts say chancellor's law would risk crash by shifting debt from government on to households
George Osborne's plan to enshrine permanent budget surpluses in law is a political gimmick that ignores "basic economics", a group of academic economists has warned.
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