Loanable funds? The money multiplier? Steve Keen and Richard Murphy dismantle the myths. Double-entry accounting shows what really happens when banks create money and governments
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Farage vs the vulnerable
This is the first in a series of posts on the politics of Nigel Farage and Reform, all of which treat the two as effectively
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What does the politics of care mean?
Earlier this year, I was approached by a major publisher – a division of Penguin Random House – and asked to consider writing a book
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Economics questions: The Karl Marx 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
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Neurodivergence: the background
As I have already noted this morning, I believe that President Trump’s announcement on autism, made last night, is a part of his politics of
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The finance curse
The UK suffers from a finance curse. Far from being our economic jewel, the City of London has drained trillions from the economy. That’s lost
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On autism and the politics of hate
I was shocked and dismayed by what President Trump had to say on the subject of autism yesterday. As the Guardian reported: The Trump administration unveiled highly
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The politics of hate
In a strange way, I was pleased to note a moment of truthful comment by Donald Trump over the weekend. What he said, during his
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The last thing this country needs is an expansion of Gatwick Airport
As the Guardian reports this morning: Gatwick Airport’s £2.2bn second runway plan has been given the go-ahead by the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander. With the
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