I tried to engage with Simon Wren-Lewis and Jonathan Portes on twitter yesterday with regard to the questions I had raised on Simon’s tweets to
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Pollution caps and modern monetary theory
Rupert Read is a philosopher at the University of East Anglia. He is a prominent Green Party campaigner and chair if the Greenhouse think tank.
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What if the experts are right?
March 29 is looming. It’s a Friday in case you were not aware. I suspect there will be Brexit parties. Or wakes. And for the
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A challenge to Simon Wren-Lewis on modern monetary theory and Labour’s fiscal credibility rule
Simon Wren-Lewis made an interesting claim yesterday in three tweets: This is, of course, a response to the debate on MMT and the Labour Party
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English politics may wait a long time for something like the SNP to come along
I am not the greatest fan of The Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley. He is a man who can instinctively find the middle: the line of least
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Grant Thornton have proved that the auditing profession has completely lost its moral and professional compass
I am grateful to a commentator for drawing this legal case to my attention. I do not claim have read all the decision. If you
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Why the left and Labour really do need to adopt the core ideas of modern monetary theory
I read Jonathan Portes’ attack on modern monetary theory in Prospect with some bemusement. Firstly that is because many in the UK modern monetary theory
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Tax justice and MMT
I was involved in making a Taxcast on tax and modern monetary theory yesterday, with John Christensen and Namoi Fowler of the Tax Justice Network.
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MMT is not nonsense economics
I have not had time to finish my response to Jonathan Portes on MMT, and I will be publishing one here since Prospect are allowing
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