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Economy question brought on King’s Speech stutter

21 March 11

In one recent interview when I was asked where the UK economy might be in 15 years’ time, my response was a stutter akin to Colin Firth’s performance in the film, The King’s Speech. Imagine being asked the same question in 1996: ‘Well, we’ll probably be recovering from the biggest crash since 1929 and Dave and Nick will be performing a dangerous double act variously talking about cuts and some sort of “Big Society”’. It was a good question and made me think about students’ experience of studying property at different times of the economic cycle. How can boom, bust and changing attitudes to risk be translated by academics into strong theoretical teaching that is also relevant to events of the day?