That’s your bloody post-truth (ESCoE OP-01)

Contents

Ed Humpherson Introduction p3 

Kate Barker The elusiveness of “truth” for the economic policymaker p7

Tony Curzon Price Is there a newly urgent Trust/Accuracy trade-off for national economic statistics? p11

Mairi Spowage Building trust in a politicised environment p15

Rebecca Riley Trust, relevance – and the need to invest in economic statistics p19