I wrote yesterday about Labour’s dedication to fiscal rules, and how ill-advised this was. I have now read Anneliese Dodd’s Mais lecture, given last night.
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The FT is saying today that ‘austerity does not work, long live austerity!’
The FT has published the most extraordinarily confused editorial today. It is on the future direction of macroeconomic policy, and so well within what should
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WIll MMT punish working people with tax rises if there is inflation?
I was asked to make this video to explain whether, or not, people on low incomes would be punished more heavily than those with higher
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Congress has to impeach Trump: the message that fascism will not be tolerated has to be sent
I am pleased that Congress is continuing with its plans to impeach Trump. We knew where Trump was heading. It was always towards totalitarian fascism.
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What is modern monetary theory?
I did a talk last night on MMT for a wide range of Scottish people with shared environmental concerns. It struck me how little most
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The last thing Labour needs is another fiscal rule
The FT has reported this morning that Anneliese Dodds is to set out plans for Labour’s new economic strategy in a speech today. They note
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Were the tax cuts to big business and the well off worth the deaths we are now seeing from coronavirus?
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The crisis in the NHS is overwhelming this week. It has reminded me of conversations I had
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It’s a sad day when mainstream politicians have reached such depths of indifference to suffering
As the FT is reporting this morning, there is a growing demand from Tory MPs for the government to fix a date to end the
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We’ve got to move beyond political marketing that appeals to base instincts
Margaret Thatcher had many legacies, one of which was the creation of a new form of political marketing. The rise of the focus group is
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