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Sun, 15/09/2024 - 20:50

GOWER INITIATIVE FOR MODERN MONEY STUDIES – WRITTEN EVIDENCE SND0019 – SUSTAINABILITY OF THE UK’S NATIONAL DEBT INQUIRY   Introduction 1.1    The national debt has been a recurring topic …

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Sun, 07/07/2024 - 20:28

By Neil Wilson. Reposted with permission from Neil’s New Wayland article.   The strike action by UK junior doctors has an unreal quality. It lacks the media and political actions …

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Mon, 16/10/2023 - 04:53

‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture. We’ve got to have an ‘enough’. Always ask growth of what, and why, and for whom, and who …

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Sun, 09/07/2023 - 05:38

Catherine Armstrong [1], The University of York, 2023   Introduction The Universal Basic Income (UBI) guarantees every adult an income. The Job Guarantee (JG) provides employment to everyone willing and …

The post Should we favour a Job Guarantee over a Universal Basic Income as a means of achieving a more socially just society? appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.

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Tue, 04/07/2023 - 06:59

MMT strips way the veil of neo-liberal ideology that mainstream macroeconomists use to restrict government spending. We learn that these constraints are purely voluntary and have no intrinsic status. This …

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Mon, 05/06/2023 - 02:27

“It is a trope of twentieth and twenty-first century-life that governments faced with financial shortfalls look first to the services they provide their citizens when making cuts. Instances like these …

The post Politicians’ fine-sounding pledges offer little more than a deceitful illusion when sound finances dictate the strategy appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.