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
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership … not only between those who are living, but those who are dead and those who are to be born. Edmund …
The deceitful image of money scarcity has no place in our society. Read MorePublic duty and the public purpose? Or, self-serving interest? Politicians have a choice. We have a choice. The problems we face did not come down from the heavens. They are …
We can afford to choose public purpose spending Read MoreThis week the Learning and Work Institute published its July briefing on employment. Stephen Evans, its chief executive, made it clear that there were signs of an employment crisis ahead …
“Either you guarantee employment, or you guarantee there will be unemployment.” – Pavlina Tcherneva 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 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 More‘We hope this pandemic will teach us that in normal times we must build up our supplies, our infrastructure, and our institutions to be able to deal with crises. We …
We don’t have to accept a corporate blueprint for a future world. The alternative is to forge a collective vision based on solid values and publicly provided foundations to enable human and planetary flourishing. Read More‘Care homes have been top priority for the government’ so said the health secretary in a COVID-19 briefing earlier this week. Daily the evidence grows that this is yet more …
The question is not how we will pay for the pandemic, but how government can use its currency-issuing capacity to deal with the most pressing issues of our time. Read MoreIn 2010 the newly elected Conservative government, using smoke and mirrors, turned what was a private debt crisis caused by global reckless greed and speculation by financial markets into a …
The government’s spending promises have shown the need for austerity is a lie and a sham. It’s time to hold the government to account for its political decisions, not its fiscal prudence or otherwise. Read MoreFear is growing as the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads across the planet. As the media ramps up the anxiety with its daily reporting, people are crazily sweeping supermarket shelves of toilet …
After a decade of public sector cuts, it is time to learn the lesson that austerity has consequences for us all. Read More