Brexit and health services.

Wind of Change: Brexit and European Rehabilitation

The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy

Recent years have witnessed the rise of populism and populist leaders, movements and policies in many pluralist liberal democracies, with Brexit and the election of Trump the two most recent high profile examples of this backlash against established political elites and the institutions that support them. This new populism is underpinned by a post-truth politics which is using social media as a...

Brexit will hamper introduction of seven day hospital services, expert warns.

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union would make it more difficult to bring in seven day services in hospitals, an expert has warned. Julian Bion, chief investigator of a research project looking at the provision of emergency, specialist led care at weekends, said it could take 20 years before seven day services were successfully introduced. Speaking at a Science Media Centre briefi...

The early semantics of the neologism BREXIT: a lexicogrammatical approach

The aim of this paper is to examine the nominality of the neologism BREXIT using a corpus-informed lexicogrammatical approach. The term BREXIT, coined in 2012, used initially in print and social media in the UK is now internationally wide-spread. BREXIT is a blend of British + exit, which expresses the meaning of’Britain exiting from the EU’. Although ‘Brexit’ clearly expresses an event (motion...

The Costs and Benefits of Leaving the EU: Trade Effects

This paper estimates the welfare effects of Brexit, focusing on trade and fiscal transfers. We use a standard quantitative general equilibrium trade model with many countries and sectors and trade in intermediates, as in Costinot and Rodríguez-Clare (2014). We simulate a range of counterfactuals reflecting alternative options for EU-UK relations following Brexit. Welfare losses for the average ...