Comments on: From Concorde to Hinkley: The EU and Britain’s trade and investment policy https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/from-concorde-to-hinkley-the-eu-and-britains-trade-and-investment-policy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-concorde-to-hinkley-the-eu-and-britains-trade-and-investment-policy Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:35:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 By: Trade, Empire 2.0 and the lies we tell ourselves – New thinking for the British economy https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/from-concorde-to-hinkley-the-eu-and-britains-trade-and-investment-policy/#comment-110 Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:28:03 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=435#comment-110 […] As Des Cohen, who was in the Treasury’s economics team at the time, wrote for openDemocracy back in November, it was the realisation that the Commonwealth wasn’t a big enough market for exports that lured […]

]]> By: Pat https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/from-concorde-to-hinkley-the-eu-and-britains-trade-and-investment-policy/#comment-41 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 14:08:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=435#comment-41 In your last question, your comparison is invalid. Never joining the common market is EXTREMELY different from leaving it. In very oversimplified terms, the decision to join or not either the economy have new channels and more competition or things are kept as they currently are. But with the decision to leave, it’s reversed : either things are kept as-is, or channels that businesses are using are closed. Economic stability being a matter of confidence, those two actions have little in common.

]]> By: CommentTeleView https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/from-concorde-to-hinkley-the-eu-and-britains-trade-and-investment-policy/#comment-38 Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:12:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=435#comment-38 There seems no end of writers unable to recognise how the world has moved on since Britain joined the EEC. Cohen’s “analysing” is indeed better described as “thinking”, although even that is putting a brave face on it.

The underlying flaw in his argument that Brexit is a disaster for Britain, is to simply ask if there is any reason to suppose that we wouldn’t survive, or indeed thrive, outside the EU, in the way that Canada, Australia, Norway, or any other country which is not in the EU?

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