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
“What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.” David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 …
Don’t let the black hole debt doomsters suck us in with their lies. Enough is enough. Read MoreThe ‘government as household’ myth is directly responsible for neoliberal governments getting away with treating the welfare of citizens (those they are meant to represent) as non-essential discretionary spending. As …
Party conferences dish up pie-based economics Read More“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller While the Tory leadership hopefuls have …
As Britain deals with hunger, record temperatures and wildfires, Tory candidates bicker over tax cuts and borrowing 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 …
Johnson resigns, but the toxic market-driven ideology will remain, whoever his successor Read More“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no …
Growing discontent as the cost of living rise continues to bite Read More“Please spread the word. We need to end the ‘state is like household’ analogy. The main constraint on govt. spending is the productive capacity and resources in the economy and …
The Government, like the Pied Piper, marches the nation back to Dickensian Britain Read More“Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilisation.” John Maynard Keynes This week, amidst continuing global …
Out-of-touch Chancellor’s Spring Statement fails to help those most in need Read MoreGIMMS welcomes Carlos García Hernández as he introduces his new interview with Chris Williamson. “As long as the issue of any matter fraught with peril is still in doubt, and …
Carlos García Hernández interviews Chris Williamson – The Resist Movement Read MoreYou have to ask yourself: if our economic system actively destroys the biosphere *and* fails to meet most people’s basic needs, then what is actually the point? Jason Hickel – …
Budget 2021 – Those with the least receive only crumbs Read MoreThe ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” David Graeber After two weeks of party …
Conference speeches reveal the misery to come Read More