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Dalet

9th October 202322nd October 2026

The story behind Fiat Socialism By Carlos García Hernández “It’s not three, it’s four” – I remember distinctly when I had that thought. Intuition hit me. I was writing A …

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A practical exercise for the reconstruction of the Left

9th July 202322nd October 2026

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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Currency, coercion and campuses

6th December 202222nd October 2026

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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Johnson resigns, but the toxic market-driven ideology will remain, whoever his successor

9th July 202222nd October 2026

“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand …

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The Government, like the Pied Piper, marches the nation back to Dickensian Britain

29th May 202222nd October 2026

“Please spread the word. We need to end the ‘state is like household’ analogy. The main constraint on govt. spending is the productive capacity and resources in the economy and …

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An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer (the paper, and author interviews)

25th January 202222nd October 2026

  This post documents a 2020 paper (updated in 2021) called An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer, and my seven-part series of interviews with all three co-authors: Richard Tye, …

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How the Government’s Super-Platinum Credit Card Works

18th January 202222nd October 2026

By Neil Wilson. Reblogged from Wilson’s New Wayland website   Modern Monetary Theory explains that monetarily sovereign governments (like the US, UK, and Japan) can issue money without first raising …

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Running a Modern Money Economy

26th December 202122nd October 2026

Neil Wilson explains how the economy can work for the benefit of the people; how it can be the servant of society rather than its master. Originally published on Neil’s …

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Baseline Communism

21st November 202122nd October 2026

By Carlos García Hernández (Originally published in Spanish in El Común) Is fiat socialism a communist proposal?  This question was presented to me on 26th September in the form of …

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Another week of handbag economics

3rd October 202122nd October 2026

“The objective should be to organize the economy around human needs and well-being. If toward this end we decommodify key goods and services, or legislate longer product lifespans, use-value will …

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SHolland

@sarahollando552 ·
24 Dec

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

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@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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@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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@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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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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