The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies
An independent, non-profit organisation – part of a growing international movement challenging the economic orthodoxy of the last five decades
“Let’s face it, the universe is messy. It is nonlinear, turbulent, and chaotic. It is dynamic. It spends its time in transient behavior on its way to somewhere else, not …
The empire of lies (and its consequences) Read More‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture. We’ve got to have an ‘enough’. Always ask growth of what, and why, and for whom, and who …
Humanity sits at a crossroads as politicians re-sell the politics of public austerity Read MoreMMT strips way the veil of neo-liberal ideology that mainstream macroeconomists use to restrict government spending. We learn that these constraints are purely voluntary and have no intrinsic status. This …
While opposing political parties play the fiscal credibility game, people get hurt. Read More“It is a trope of twentieth and twenty-first century-life that governments faced with financial shortfalls look first to the services they provide their citizens when making cuts. Instances like these …
Politicians’ fine-sounding pledges offer little more than a deceitful illusion when sound finances dictate the strategy Read More“As long as we labour under the delusion that financial choices are the same for a government as they are for households or firms, who don’t have a [central] bank …
Two worlds. Royalty shamelessly flaunts its wealth while the people struggle to live. Read MoreKnowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier. Which …
Keynes’ wisdom still stands; “Anything we can actually do we can afford.” Read More‘It needs to be understood how governments have facilitated inequality in the world. Billionaires don’t happen naturally. The rules by which a country’s economy operates is controlled by governments. If …
Money for big business and war but not for the public good Read More[The] method to the madness is the fact that we do need austerity to enforce a certain organisation of society which is a classist organisation based on wage labor and …
It is not the NHS that is failing us, it is the government Read More‘The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.’ Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth …
“Scrooge” Hunt’s Autumn Statement leads us to the darkness of a new round of austerity Read More“What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.” David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 …
Don’t let the black hole debt doomsters suck us in with their lies. Enough is enough. Read More