Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, considers the effectiveness of the economic policies of the 3 main parties to continue Britain’s recovery. He warns of the dangers of a quick deficit cut, why the public sector needs to step in to maintain economic activity and rates the claims a coalition government will lead to an economic crisis as scaremongering. Wealthy countries, he says, do spend more on the public sector; however it is up to the electorate to vote for what they want – a bigger public sector with better services or smaller with higher taxes?
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28 April 2010.