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SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - "The Changing St
 ate and the 2019 Spending Review" - Paul Johnson
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:*Date:* Wednesday 13 February 2019 \n*Time:* 18:00 -19:30\n*Sp
 eaker:*  Paul Johnson\n*Talk Title:*‘The Changing State and the 2019 Spe
 nding Review’\n*Location:* Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College\n\n*Spe
 aker*\nPaul Johnson has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies 
 since January 2011. He is also a visiting professor in the economics depar
 tment at UCL. He is a columnist for The Times and is currently also a memb
 er of the UK Climate Change Committee\, and of the Banking Standards Board
 . Previous roles have included time as chief economist at the Department f
 or Education and as director of public spending at HM Treasury\, where he 
 also served as deputy head of the government economic service. He is a fre
 quent contributor to written and broadcast media and has made a number of 
 radio programmes. His interests include tax\, welfare\, inequality\, pensi
 ons\, education\, labour markets\, health spending\, climate change and pu
 blic finances. Paul Johnson is author of books on pensions\, tax\, and ine
 quality. He holds honorary doctorates from UCL and the University of Exete
 r. He was appointed CBE in the 2018 birthday honours. He was a member of t
 he winning Keble college Oxford team in the 2017/18 Christmas University C
 hallenge series.\n\n*Talk Overview:*\nLater this year we should hear the o
 utcome of the spending review – arguably the most important non-Brexit r
 elated decision of this parliament. A decade after the financial crisis we
  are still experiencing its consequences in much lower living standards th
 an we might have expected and also in much lower levels of government spen
 ding. After facing the biggest deficit in peacetime history\, since\n2010 
 the government has implemented the biggest set of spending cuts since at l
 east the 1940s. Yet in many ways governments since 2010 have followed exac
 tly the priorities of previous administrations such that health is taking 
 an ever growing fraction of all spending.Paul Johnson will trace the chang
 es in public finances and public spending\, set out some of the options an
 d challenges in the forthcoming spending review\, as well as looking at op
 position policy. He will argue that future pressures on public spending ar
 e unlikely to be accommodated unless the size of the state finally grows o
 r our demands on it change dramatically.\n\nFor other Seminars see: www.po
 liticaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk\n\nPlease contact the seminar organisers Ph
 ilip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk)
  in the event of a query.
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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