For years, I was annoyed by the term TINA, which Margaret Thatcher coined and which stands for \u201cthere is no alternative\u201d.<\/p>\n
I could find no adequate response. And then, yesterday morning, it occurred to me that there is one. It is TIARA, which stands for \u201cthere is a radical\/rational\/real alternative\u201d. You can take your pick of which R you want.<\/p>\n
This, of course, has always been the case. No one ever needed to put up with neoliberalism. It was designed as an exploitative curse upon the majority of people in a population, and that is what it has been. To pretend that there was no alternative was just the language of an elite who wished to exploit people.<\/p>\n
But, I have to say, I feel more comfortable now that I have a suitable acronym available to respond with, because a radical, real and rational alternative seems to be just the right way to describe the framing that I use for modern monetary theory and the politics of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"