在经济学术语中，英国似乎沦为了一个胡萨克-马格效应（Houthakker-Magee effect）的极端范例 — — 该效应以在1969年发现进口和出口的价格弹性可能大幅度分化，导致出现长期性经常账户不平衡趋势的两位经济学家的名字命名。
In economics jargon, the UK seems to be suffering from an extreme variant of the Houthakker-Magee effect – named after two economists who discovered in 1969 that price elasticities for imports and exports could diverge substantially, giving rise to a permanent tendency toward current-account imbalance.