The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies
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This 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 MoreFrom Boris Johnson’s earlier reincarnation as Churchill in the pre-Brexit era, he has now been reborn as FDR, or at least likes to think so. According to the Conservative website, …
‘In these difficult days [we] must and shall choose the path of social justice … the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.’ Franklin D Roosevelt. Read MoreWarren Mosler Published online 4th July 2020. Updated 3rd November 2024. Full Document Introduction The purpose of this white paper is to publicly present the fundamentals of …
White Paper: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Read MoreIn this post, originally published on Medium, Michael Berks discusses NHS funding. I’m sure you’ve all seen the story of 100-year old Captain Tom Moore, who, by walking 100 laps …
We need to talk about Tommy…the NHS: charity, taxes and MMT 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‘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 MoreGIMMS welcomes this week’s guest MMT Lens author Peter Martin. Peter has always taken an interest in politics and economics and considered himself vaguely Keynesian. He first came across …
Modern Monetary Theory and the COVID-19 induced economic slowdown. Read MoreGIMMS is pleased to have permission to reblog this article from @pamos19. Originally published on her Idle Obs blog site here “Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If …
Fundraisers v Public Money for NHS Read More‘No society should need permission from wealthy people to operate in a high functioning way’ Nick Hanauer A day of reckoning is coming. The exponential rise in deficit spending …
The cost of government austerity has been a one of infrastructure decay and human suffering. Our nation has paid the price. Are we ready yet to re-imagine our world? Read More“How all this plays out ultimately depends on us. The emperor is now naked and the ground for a radical paradigm shift – one based on popular sovereignty, democratic control …
COVID-19 is our practice run. Our future survival may be at stake, but the solutions are within our grasp. NOW. Read More