Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.