Why do we need a politics of care? This is why we do: More than one in 20 people are homeless in parts of London,
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Economic questions: the James Tobin 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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New glossary entry: Spahn taxation
Of all the concepts I noted in my post on making capital controls work this morning, the one likely to be most unfamiliar is Spahn
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Where’s the plan?
Too many campaigners talk about what’s wrong, but never explain what must change or how it could happen. Real campaigning means finding solutions: identifying causes,
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Why are people are frightened?
I think people are frightened at the prospect of another crash, which is looking ever more likely. Yesterday’s video has had 156,000 views so far,
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Tax in modern monetary theory
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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12 questions about modern money
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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The difference modern monetary theory makes to managing the modern money economy
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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Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control
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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