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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Optimal taxation- an update

Some time ago I wrote a blog laying out why I wanted to change how corporate taxes worked so that we could minimise tax avoidance. I stand…

15 min readSep 1, 2023

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Fixing monopolies with competitive shares.

Monopolies are bad. This is something we have an usual level of agreement on across politics and economics. The reasoning goes back a very…

16 min readAug 17, 2023

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Another blog arguing labour income can be monopolistic.

Let’s imagine that some people earn more than others, a helpfully easy thought experiment because we know they do. So… why do they?

7 min readJul 18, 2022

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Nouveau central banking, a proposal.

Every so often I like to put out a very 'blue skies thinking' blog on how to reform the tools and mandate of central banks. It's always…

20 min readJan 21, 2022

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

The secret of capital and the problem Socialists need to solve.

Why did the capitalist countries win the cold war? Why have a stock market at all? If Socialists really want to defeat Capitalism I would…

12 min readFeb 24, 2021

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Inflation, investment, and competitiveness.

I want to present an argument about business investment and inflation. To get to that though we need to take a step back and put in some…

12 min readDec 15, 2020

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Inflation, investment, and competitiveness.

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Why I think we should change the macroeconomic assignment

In the great MMT wars of economics twitter I learned a rather helpful term from Simon Wren-Lewis: “the macroeconomic assignment”. MMT…

5 min readDec 10, 2020

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Ending Corporate tax avoidance and empowering small business.

Almost every political party in an election says it's going to help small businesses. In practice this rarely means actually helping small…

17 min readNov 9, 2020

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

A Liberal Manifesto for the new century.

Now is a time of unrivaled wealth surrounded by poverty. Poverty is found in the homelessness on our streets and the family working…

2 min readOct 29, 2020

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

A UK Constitution in the context of Parliamentary Sovereignty

The United Kingdom has an unusual constitutional position in that it doesn't have a single document that is it's Constitution. This has…

4 min readSep 22, 2020

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Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

Stephen John Richmond (The Richmond Papers)

My attempt to understand policy and economics. Some ideas practical, some not. Currently Chair @CovLibDems and Council member for the Social Liberal forum.

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