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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ESG investing has to take Fair Tax on board or its a waste of time
The FT has an article making an important argument this morning. As it notes: The huge rise in environmental, social and governance-based investing is funnelling
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The Good Law Project makes the case for civil society
I was pleased by a particular dimension of the decision in the Judicial Review brought by the Good Law Project on the Department for Health’s
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Modern monetary theory: my new summary of how I think it delivers sound economic policy
It has been suggested to me that my support for the issue of savings bonds to the public to fund socially useful investment, with government
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