Lucy Barnes

@lucy-barnes.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Economy, UCL. She/her. Here to lurk.

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A figure showing estimated effects of equality, mobility, growth, employment, poverty reduction and price stability on evaluations of economic success for a hypothetical country profile, in Britain and the USA.
A chart showing effects of price stability, poverty reduction, employment, growth, mobility and equality on evaluations of economic success, by party. The estimate for price stability for Republicans is ~0.06, for Democrats ~0.02. The estimate for employment is around ~0.02 for both parties. (These are the effects of 1 percentage point changes in these variable).
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A chart showing the relative popularity of raising tax through 22 different levers in the uk system