“You might think, given their role in our continuing national nightmare, that woolly-headed economists would be a little bit circumspect when it comes to making pronouncements that affect people’s livelihoods. Not Brian Lucey. In a recent blog post he purports to evaluate Morgan Kelly’s claim that ‘senior civil servants like [Kelly] continue to enjoy salaries twice as much as our European counterparts’. Kelly is apparently confused about who is and isn’t a civil servant …” (more)
[Ernie Ball’s Blog, 9 May]