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
What 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“…increasingly we live in a world filled with the equivalents of deadly garage-door openers, unnecessary items that offer us mild and insipid comfort at the price of a dangerous and …
Economics as if people [and the planet] mattered Read More“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free …
The health and well-being of our children is not determined by taxpayers’ money, but by the political will to make a difference Read MoreThe public purpose is inherently a progressive agenda that strives to continually improve the material, social, physical, cultural and psychological well-being of all members of society. It is inherently ‘aspirational’ …
What makes a healthy economy and society and how can it best be delivered? 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 MoreOver the last few years, the subject of mental health services has increasingly made the news headlines. A quick search engine query says it all: ‘Damning report finds serious failings …
The underfunding of mental health services is a political choice. There is an alternative. Read More“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 …
Delivering ecological, social and economic change: Join us in Birmingham to find out more Read More“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us …
The fate of local government is hanging in the balance 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