We discuss Nervous States with its author: How has debate became so angery!1!! and fractious? Why don’t we trust institutions any more — or better, which institutions do we still trust and why? How has war increasingly encroached onto peace? And maybe believing in stats too much means that we now don’t believe in anything…
Economics
Steve Keen – Corona Crisis: A debt jubilee – the only real answer?
Companies and governments are racking up massive debts to cope with the impact of COVID-19. Apart from grants for a month or two of partial salaries, the approach has largely been to extend easy short-term […]
Economics
Stephanie Kelton & Bill Mitchell – The World of MMT
Two of the key developers of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) talk about its past, present and future state. Stephanie Kelton defines the difference between deficit hawks & doves (a la Krugman) as the choice between […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – “To eradicate poverty we have to radically reorganise the global economy”
Jason Hickel explains why the numbers being used to measure world poverty are not accurate and give the impression of improvement, where the situation is in reality getting worse.
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