This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Will we have a Galileo moment?
I was asked by an economics correspondent at a well-known organisation yesterday to provide them with some questions for a Q&A session they were going
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Why is Rachel Reeves silent?
We’re facing awartime economic emergency, and Rachel Reeves is saying nothing. No reassurance. No plan. No action. In this video, I set out exactly what
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Economic questions: the Viktor Frankl Question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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We should not deal with fascists
As the Washington Post has reported: On Wednesday at the Pentagon, [Defence Secretary, Pete] Hegseth prayed for U.S. troops to inflict “overwhelming violence of action against
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Why the UK spends £80 billion a year subsidising dead money
Your savings are dead money. That’s the uncomfortable truth about how money works that politicians don’t want you to understand. In this video, I explain
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MMT and the job guarantee
At the recent Scottish Festival of Economics, held in Edinburgh, Warren Mosler, who is credited with creating modern monetary theory (MMT), was asked whether he
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New glossary entry: the job guarantee
The so-called job guarantee is a policy proposal associated with modern monetary theory (MMT) that seeks to achieve full employment by offering a publicly funded
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The five things that really matter in life
We have just published this short video on YouTube and many other channels. This is the transcript: We’re told that success in life means having
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