Tomorrow is the day of the Scottish Currency Group’s conference on moving on from the Sustainable Growth Commission, and all that is wrong with it:
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Poor theory, driving delusional thinking, is resulting in dire government decision making
It struck me overnight that there us at the heart of this government’s policy paradoxical and incoherent choice. Let’s assume there are just three big
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Breaking the austerity myth
I learned this morning that I podcast I recorded recently with Manda Scott for the Accidental Gods podcast series has been published. This comes from
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The economics of the real world
I used to teach a module with this title at City, University of Lindon. The students seemed to really enjoy it because in it we used data
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Thursday evening
The news on employment is depressing – and that’s before taking furlough into account
With Johnson announcing the economy will be open by the end of June my expectation is that Sunak will be rapidly unwinding furlough and other
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If you ask the wrong questions about the national debt without first trying to understand what it is you do, of course, get the wrong answers
I watched Channel 4’s Dispatches on who pays for Covid last night, largely in despair. Partly that was at the choice of the hard-right economics
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Little sense and less sensibility: the government’s route to many more Covid deaths
I watched the Prime Minister’s press conference last night. I read the ‘road map’. I read expert reaction in the media and on Twitter. And
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Membership of a community is not worth it if it requires accommodating what is wrong. The truth is worth so much more
This comment was posted on the blog over the weekend in response to my comments on Recovery Bonds: You can add the MMT community to
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