{"id":49110,"date":"2020-04-22T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T07:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=49110"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T07:37:26","slug":"question-of-the-day-if-we-were-to-create-an-economy-from-scratch-what-would-it-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/04\/22\/question-of-the-day-if-we-were-to-create-an-economy-from-scratch-what-would-it-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the day: If we were to create an economy from scratch, what would it look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commentator who uses the name Vinnie on this blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/04\/21\/question-of-the-day-should-we-bail-out-companies-that-use-tax-havens\/#comment-848856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked this question this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just wondered if I could put forward a suggestion for a future \u201cQuestion of The Day\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>If we were to create an economy from scratch, what would it look like?<\/p>\n<p>Would we have CBRs, broad money, private banks (or even nationalised ones), Treasury bonds, direct BoE financing of the Treasury. Sovereign money (Positive Money style) etc etc?<\/p>\n<p>What bits of the present system would we keep (and why)?<\/p>\n<p>Is the future aim a sustainable economy and if so, what would that actually mean and look like?<\/p>\n<p>Big topic, I know, but would be good to see (and understand) some of the ideas that are out there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A big topic indeed, but what does anyone think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commentator who uses the name Vinnie on this blog asked this question this morning: I just wondered if I could put forward a suggestion<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/04\/22\/question-of-the-day-if-we-were-to-create-an-economy-from-scratch-what-would-it-look-like\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-question-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}