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Submission to the “Sustainability of the UK’s national debt” Inquiry

15th September 2024

GOWER INITIATIVE FOR MODERN MONEY STUDIES – WRITTEN EVIDENCE SND0019 – SUSTAINABILITY OF THE UK’S NATIONAL DEBT INQUIRY   Introduction 1.1    The national debt has been a recurring topic …

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Junior Doctors: your 35% payrise is already in place. Demand that it be paid

7th July 20247th July 2024

By Neil Wilson. Reposted with permission from Neil’s New Wayland article.   The strike action by UK junior doctors has an unreal quality. It lacks the media and political actions …

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A practical exercise for the reconstruction of the Left

9th July 2023

By Carlos García Hernández Originally published in Spanish on 1/7/23.       Definition of a State: a territory with fixed borders under a central authority with the capacity to …

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New Keynesians, mathematics and democracy

26th December 202226th December 2022

by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 There are quite a few economists who suffer from …

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Resources, neo-colonialism and the NHS

17th December 202217th December 2022

by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 The continuing debate about the NHS — whether it’s …

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Tax people, not corporations

14th December 20229th December 2022

by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 Most people in the UK, both on the Left …

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“Fiat Socialism” book launch

11th December 2022

An ocean with shores By Carlos García Hernández Originally published in Spanish in El Común on 2nd December 2022. The video at the end of this article was recorded at …

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The Job Guarantee is just Workfare, isn’t it?

10th December 202211th December 2022

by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 Margaret Thatcher, Nigel Farage and Tony Blair. What do …

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Currency, coercion and campuses

6th December 2022

by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 I use this as supporting notes for a very …

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Spending chains and Sankey diagrams

26th November 2022

by Alan Hutchison Published on Matches in the dark 18th October 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 Understand spending chains and you understand a fair chunk of Modern Monetary Theory. …

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Sara Holland @sarahollando552 ·
24 Dec

True for the US
True for the U.K.
#MMT @wbmosler
@GowerInitiative

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Tally Sticks @widespreadhaze ·
26 Dec

@grenville_1 @DanielJHannan First government does not spend by printing money.

What makes us richer are the resources that are mobilised by both government and private spending.

At the global level all financial liabilities and all financial assets offset each other, cancelling to zero. What remains are

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Tally Sticks @widespreadhaze ·
26 Dec

@DanielJHannan Good question. The answer is simply that our ancestors ran a commodity based currency system: a silver standard. However, for centuries they utilised systems to bypass the silver constraint, such as ‘tallies of pro’. The ancient Exchequer of Receipt was in effect a clearing house

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Tally Sticks @widespreadhaze ·
18 Dec

The money comes from MPs votes. It’s called ‘Money from Parliament’.

You are an MP and should know this, it is your job after all.

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Pavlina R Tcherneva @ptcherneva ·
18 Dec

We call on the Indian government to recommit to MGNREGA & its demand-driven access to employment from a human rights perspective. Join me, @JosephEStiglitz, @MazzucatoM, @Ferreras_Isa, @PikettyWIL, @srpoverty, @DarrickHamilton, @Jayati1609 and other experts by signing our letter.

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