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 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“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand …
Delivering ecological, social and economic change: Join us in Birmingham to find out more Read More“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us …
The fate of local government is hanging in the balance Read MoreResounding cheers from audiences bring mighty puffs and glows to those politicians promising to fund their spending ambitions with cash recovered from tax-havens in distant islands. But how much could …
Is there a critical shortage of rich people? Read More“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively …
Excuse us but we need to talk about the Green New Deal. Read MoreAnd in the news…… The IMF warns this week that the world has run out of ‘fiscal fire power’ to fight the next recession because the balance sheets of central …
The markets are not in charge, sovereign currency-issuing governments are Read MoreWhilst the Brexit train crash rumbles on and distracts the nation, the ongoing economic and social instability caused by cuts to public spending and the pursuit of ideologically driven policies …
A healthy economy depends on a healthy nation. Time to break the austerity myth. Time to unravel the truth. Read More