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
“I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t more men than jobs. It’s brought a peculiar, …
More than tinkering around the edges is needed to bring about a better world Read More‘The world was created with everything needed within it. Yet, mankind remains the biggest threat to its destruction.’ Oladosu Adenike – ecofeminist, climate justice activist and agricultural economist. In …
A just transition to a sustainable, fairer world. Not short-term fixes Read More“OK…SO WHERE DOES THE FUNDING COME FROM?” It depends on what we are talking about. If we are talking about universal health care, a Job Guarantee, infrastructure work, etc., the …
Have we had enough of market-led dogma yet? Read More“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too …
The need is to fix the system, not just to provide ‘sticking plasters’ Read More‘We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.’ Ursula K Le Guin The year 2020 will be not be remembered with any great …
The Covid-19 pandemic shows the need for change. For a real ‘Reset’. Read MoreBy Carlos García Hernández Article originally published in Spanish by RedMMT here Marx argues that any economic system based on private ownership of the means of production is doomed to …
The Paradox of the Two Knights Read MoreThe old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci In the week that the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced …
Time to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead. Read MoreBefore it’s too late let’s not let the window of opportunity pass us by. The government is us, or it could be. As many of us sit in our living …
While a governmental blame game distracts the public, what democracy we had is being further hollowed out. Read MoreWe would like to share an article by GIMMS associate Alan Hutchison. This article was posted on his excellent website Matches in the Dark here. I use this as supporting …
We pay for it by spending the money Read MorePhilip Armstrong Nick Potts Solent University, Southampton, UK Published online 13th August 2020 Full article Abstract In these extraordinary times it might just be that heterodox …
Time For Informed Change. Post Covid-19 Economics Read More