Simply Red got this right a long time ago now: The lyrics are: … I been laid off from work. My rent is due. My kids
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Coming publications
After publishing our Guide to AI and my Alertnative Budget of late, we are planning more additions to our PDF Shop. The first will be
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Descartes was wrong: economics is not a class war machine – it is a system of relationships
The suggestion has been made in response to posts that I have written here that if you are on the left, you are either on
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Grace Blakeley: the next round
Grace Blakeley has commented on the posts I made over the weekend (here, here, here and here) on her Substack, which is free to access. Doing
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Why is the left so frightened of MMT?
Why is the left still terrified of the state’s power to create money? In this video, I set out a straightforward truth, which is that
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Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money?
There are days when I genuinely wonder what parts of the left think the state is for. The capacity to create money is the most
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What do the Marxist opponents of MMT want?
Grace Blakeley has responded to my suggestion that she is wrong about modern monetary theory (MMT), saying: Thanks Richard – this confirms my assumption that
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MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose
I think modern monetary theory (MMT) matters. That is not because it is perfect, because no theory is. Instead, it is because it explains something
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Questions to ask a left-wing critic of MMT
Some on the Marxist left of politics, including those of that persuasion who have now entered the Greens in England and Wales with the clear
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