{"id":77674,"date":"2024-09-12T08:11:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T07:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=77674"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:55:51","slug":"the-altermative-economists-coming-to-a-stage-sometime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/09\/12\/the-altermative-economists-coming-to-a-stage-sometime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"The alternative economists, coming to a stage sometime soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ProfSteveKeen\/status\/1833836671722270736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should draw attention to this Twitter exchange<\/a> yesterday, which I did not initiate:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30-550x1005.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30-550x1005.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30-164x300.png 164w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30-768x1403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30-841x1536.png 841w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30-1121x2048.png 1121w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30-219x400.png 219w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-19.11.30.png 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The story behind all this is that Steve Keen asked me if I thought a public meeting (or meetings) to explain just what Reeves is doing wrong with the economy might be a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>He asked me if I would be involved.<\/p>\n<p>I said yes.<\/p>\n<p>Then he asked me to invite Danny, which I did - and he said yes, subject to availability.<\/p>\n<p>Then I suggested several more people who might take part.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of them, by any means, know about this as yet, but there are enough names in the hat now, I hope, to make something possible.<\/p>\n<p>There are massive logistical issues to getting this to work (we'd need a big venue and some organisation for a start, and I have not got the time to do either). But the idea is now in the ether.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the next thing is to turn it into a tour...<\/p>\n<p>Ideas are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I should draw attention to this Twitter exchange yesterday, which I did not initiate: The story behind all this is that Steve Keen<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/09\/12\/the-altermative-economists-coming-to-a-stage-sometime-soon\/\"><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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77674","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=77674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77695,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77674\/revisions\/77695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}