The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies
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Warren Mosler Published online 4th July 2020 Full Document Introduction The purpose of this white paper is to publicly present the fundamentals of MMT. What is MMT? …
White Paper: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Read MoreIn this post, originally published on Medium, Michael Berks discusses NHS funding. I’m sure you’ve all seen the story of 100-year old Captain Tom Moore, who, by walking 100 laps …
We need to talk about Tommy…the NHS: charity, taxes and MMT Read More“There’s something invigorating about people freaking out about modern monetary theory (MMT). They treat MMT as akin to the Ark of the Covenant in the first Indiana Jones movie. They …
‘What if the Public (really) Understood How Money Works?’ Just think what we could achieve! Read MoreJust a brief look at the news headlines in the last few weeks should be enough to set the alarm bells ringing. We are watching as the nation suffers a …
To rephrase Mahatma Gandhi ‘The future will depend on what we do today.’ Read MoreOriginally published on the Just Money website as a contribution to their Roundtable on Race and Money, this article sees David M. P. Freund, Associate Professor in the Department of …
Money is productive, and racist institutions create money Read More‘Our economic and social prospects in the coming decade depend on today’s policies. The recovery will not gain steam without more confidence which will not recover without global cooperation. Governments …
Nothing is written in stone. There is an alternative. Let’s make this the era of people power; we can do this! Read More‘To talk about the future is only useful if it leads to action now.’ E F Schumacher: Small is beautiful: Economics as if people mattered. The Bank of England in …
To talk about the future is only useful if it leads to action now Read More“Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!” – Mehmet Murat İldan (Turkish writer). Did you clap for the NHS and key workers? Did you cheer on …
If you clapped for the NHS and key workers, now it’s time to ACT. Read MoreToday, GIMMS shares a guest post by Jeff Epstein on the Payroll Protection Program in the United States. Jeff is the host of the podcast, Activist #MMT (Twitter, Facebook, web), …
Congress and corporations join forces to crush American small business Read More‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’ are the opening words of a poem by the celebrated poet Robert Frost. Whilst he was writing about his own personal life’s journey, …
‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’. The question is which one will we take? Read More