Brexit - populist reaction to the 2008 speculative bubble bursting?
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Brexit : legal and economic aspects of a political divorce
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Edward Elgar
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- Law and economics
- Public choice
- Populism
- Technological revolutions and bubble collapses
- Brexit
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As evidence accumulates about the harmful effects Brexit is likely to cause to the British economy, one may wonder what made a majority of Brits vote to leave the EU. Rather than treat it as a fit of ill temper or an unfortunate accident, this paper explores the idea that it should be seen as a populist reaction triggered by the burst of the speculative bubble in 2008-2009 and the subsequent economic mayhem. To make the case, the paper looks at (1) what populism is, (2) how it can arise as part of long-term economic waves and (3) what precisely happened in Britain before and after 2009.
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