The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies
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Charles Dickens began his novel ‘Hard Times’ thus: “NOW, what I want is, Facts. […]. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else. You …
It’s not balanced budgets that will save us. It’s the power of the public purse and our human values. Read MoreThe GIMMS team have been away and had a very busy two weeks travelling between Brighton, London, Manchester, Leeds and Newport for a variety of events. All in all, it …
We need to relearn the art of adequate spending for public purpose Read MoreThis week’s MMT Lens will necessarily be shorter as GIMMS is gearing up for a busy few weeks in Brighton, London, Manchester and Leeds not to mention Wales at the …
Getting our priorities right. Our planet or our lives. Read More“We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice …
To transform the world, we need a revolution in our priorities and values Read More“Economics lie at the very root of practical morality” Josephine Butler, English feminist, social reformer and campaigner against injustice. Boris Johnson has been distributing largesse. Well, not quite distributing it; …
The Strange Case of the Missing Money Read MoreWhat a week we’ve had. Or is that a decade? After almost 10 years of cuts to public spending and their destructive consequences, the nation is weary. We are mired …
Breaking free of neoliberal thinking to deliver progressive change Read More“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into …
The question is not how we will pay for it but what sort of society do we want to create? Read MoreLast week the House of Lords Committee on intergenerational fairness said that it was time to rebalance government policies to favour young people, or risk further shattering of the ‘social …
Repeat after us…there is no social care funding gap and no tax burden on future generations Read MoreResounding cheers from audiences bring mighty puffs and glows to those politicians promising to fund their spending ambitions with cash recovered from tax-havens in distant islands. But how much could …
Is there a critical shortage of rich people? Read MoreToday we are glad to reblog an article by Prue Plumridge, GIMMS events facilitator, which she wrote for Think Left in 2017. The original article can be seen here Society …
Pensions: Thatcher’s vision is coming to fruition Read More