British business needs more than a Brexit resolution With the election campaign now in full swing, the familiar ideological battle lines are being drawn: the size of the state, the NHS, and, of course, Brexit. The impact of Brexit uncertainty on enterprise has been discussed ad nauseam — but sadly, this hasn’t made it any less real. Numerous missed Brexit “deadlines” and ongoing [...]
Think like a small business to solve the productivity puzzle Economists, some might argue, have a knack for making the vital sound dull, for making the immediate seem remote and abstract. There’s perhaps no better example of this than the much-discussed “productivity puzzle”. This “puzzle” often sounds a bit like one of those educational computer games you might try to occupy a particularly precocious five-year-old [...]