It's time the world's economists woke up to reality
Sunday, June 3rd, 2018Martin Sandbu wrote two articles in the FT last week (very paywalled) that look at issues arising from this weekend’s referendum in Switzerland on banking reform.
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Corbynomics, MMT and wacky ideas
Saturday, June 2nd, 2018Max Lawson at Oxfam has drawn my attention to a recent article in The Economist on Corbynomics. It is interesting for a number of reasons.
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Modern monetary theory and environmental taxation
Thursday, May 31st, 2018My Cambridge Econometrics colleague, Hector Pollitt, has written a blog post on modern monetary theory and environmental taxation issue that I thought sharing here, with
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The future of Scotland will be decided by money
Sunday, May 27th, 2018A little dust has settled on the report of the Scottish Growth Commission. Some unionists are trying to say the growth numbers don’t stack: on
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The Gower Institute of Modern Money Studies
Thursday, May 17th, 2018It seems that yesterday was a good day for getting new ideas going. In addition to the Progressive Economy Forum, launched last night, a new
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Towards a reading list
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018A new commentator has said this morning: Thanks to your writings on this blog, I am interested in learning about modern monetary theory in some
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Macroeconomic modelling,endogenous money and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018I am pleased to repost this comment piece by my colleague Hector Pollitt from the blog of Cambridge Econometrics Limited, of which company I am
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Why Positive Money is wrong
Sunday, May 6th, 2018Carol Wilcox, who comments here often and is an able campaigner on land value tax issues, has asked me to comment on why I take
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A left wing policy for agriculture and rural constituencies
Sunday, May 6th, 2018I admit I do not know Marco Fante, who comments regularly on this blog. But what I do know is that he provides regular sound
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