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
“…under the Covenant, all States parties should avoid at all times taking decisions which might lead to the denial or infringement of economic, social and cultural rights. Besides being contrary …
A Brexit free zone. GIMMS reports on the real news: austerity hurts (and what we can do about it) 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 More“Economics lie at the very root of practical morality” Josephine Butler, English feminist, social reformer and campaigner against injustice. Boris Johnson has been distributing largesse. Well, not quite distributing it; …
The Strange Case of the Missing Money 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 MoreAs the GIMMS team was busy preparing for its social event in Abergavenny this weekend we didn’t have time to write our usual MMT Lens. However, we are delighted to …
Labour Should Not Fall For The Tory-Led ‘Costing’ Trick – Here’s Why Read MoreLast week GIMMS covered the Conservative Party leadership contest, which this week continues unabated and dominates the news. In a game of one-upmanship, each contender woos the voters with fancy …
The week when money suddenly became available… Read MoreLast week was Volunteering Week. Social media was brimming with warm, human stories about the work people do as volunteers. We should, without doubt, celebrate the human desire to help …
Volunteering plays a valuable role in society, but it should never be at the expense of a paid job. Read MoreIt would be remiss of GIMMS not to mention in this week’s blog the visit of Donald Trump to the UK. The good news is that he retracted his statement …
It’s time to challenge the notion that government money is scarce and show that the real limits to public spending are the nation’s resources. The real skill is how we create and share them out. 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 More