A commentator on this blog called Grahame asked about the role of tax in modern monetary theory yesterday. I pointed him to the Taxing Wealth
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Modern Monetary Theory — or modern money as I prefer to call it — simply describes the truth about how money works in the real
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One of the questions most often asked about modern monetary theory is what difference it might make to the management of the economy if it
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The Guardian reports this morning that: The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports.
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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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Wes Streeting told Sophy Ridge this morning that he had “Had it with the BMA” (British Medical Association) and that “An outbreak of juvenile delinquency”
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British politics is broken. The old left vs right divide no longer explains what is happening. Instead, we face a new choice: care or neglect.
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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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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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