Acknowledgements and thanks to the following for their help, support and encouragement for this project:
Professor William Mitchell Professor of Economics, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and a leading proponent of MMT. He is a director of COfEE, the Centre of Full Employment & Equity, promoting research aimed at restoring full employment & achieving an economy that delivers equitable outcomes for all.
“The development of a renewed emphasis in public policy on the well-being of the people rather than profits requires a marriage of several components. There has to be an understanding of how our modern monetary systems actually operate and the capacities that currency-issuing governments have to advance that well-being. But that understanding has to be related in a comprehensible way to the broader public so that our democracies are strengthened and underpinned by knowledge rather than blind ideology. And political activists have to take that knowledge and harness the public to move our political processes away from the neoliberal emphasis that has dominated over the last several decades and towards the pursuit of a robust social democratic philosophy.
The GIMMS team are motivated to play a role as a conduit between the work of the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) academics and the broader public and to actively promote these ideas within the political process as a means of accomplishing these necessary changes in political ideology.
Their work is highly valuable and I fully support it.”
Professor Stephanie Kelton Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, chief economist on the US Senate Budget Committee 2015 and an Economic Adviser to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Presidential Campaign. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the blog New Economics Perspectives.
“I am delighted to give my full support to the GIMMS project which forms part of an international movement aiming to challenge the mainstream thinking in economics of the last five decades which has its foundations in flawed and ideologically driven premises about how governments spend. Achieving progressive goals dedicated to national well-being demands a better public understanding of economics and the policy space which exists for real social and environmental improvements, in particular through a government-led Job Guarantee programme. I am sure that the GIMMS team will play an important role in promoting these concepts to a broader public by tackling the misconceptions about public finances which have driven economic austerity leading to the shrinking of public services and increased poverty particularly among women and other vulnerable groups who have borne the brunt of cuts to public spending.
I value their input into this global effort to change the economic paradigm towards one which puts public purpose as its primary goal and wish them every success in achieving their objectives. ”
Warren Mosler Economist, theorist, entrepreneur and financial professional. Warren Mosler is the author of “The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy”
Professor Fadhel Kaboub Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His research focuses on job creation programmes, youth unemployment and the political economy of the Middle East.
Dr Steven Hail Research Scholar at the Global Institute of Sustainable Prosperity and Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is a teaching specialist, committed to the defence of economic pluralism & the dissemination of insights from MMT to the general public.
Rohan Grey Founder & President of the Modern Money Network, a non-profit organisation promoting public understanding of economics & finance. He is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His research explores the legal history, design and regulation of money in the internet age.
Geoff Coventry A proponent of sustainable prosperity, an advocate for the Job Guarantee and MMT. His writing aims to help the average person understand the power of a sovereign nation’s currency and how it can be used to regain hope in our shared future.
Patricia Natalia Pino An engineer by profession, Patricia is one of the founders of the UK co-operative media group Reknr set up in 2018 with the aim of covering crucial issues and opinion by offering a platform to alternative, talented writers.