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
The GIMMS team have been away and had a very busy two weeks travelling between Brighton, London, Manchester, Leeds and Newport for a variety of events. All in all, it …
We need to relearn the art of adequate spending for public purpose Read More“We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice …
To transform the world, we need a revolution in our priorities and values Read MoreEach week, GIMMS aims to keep its readers abreast of the latest stories in the news and they form the basis of our weekly MMT Lens. Each week we search …
Change is coming. Keep calm and keep on PUSHing Read MoreAs the new Prime Minister processes around the country like the emperor with no clothes, families are struggling, children are going hungry, people are sleeping on the streets and those …
Green shoots and new horizons – there is an alternative. Read MoreThe French have a saying “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” With the events of the last few days, one might consider that nothing had changed; the Tories …
The barbarians may be inside the gates, but we can still defeat them 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 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