For decades we have been brainwashed into believing that unlimited growth is good. Economic growth is apparently the holy grail, rooted in outdated measurements like GDP and arbitrary stock-market digits… But what if these assumptions […]
Between the Anglo-American political horror shows of 2020 and the raging pandemic, something much less theatrical drifted centre stage to play a more than usually important role: interest rates. Read here
How Green QE, which is an idea that Richard co-created with Colin Hines a decade ago, can address some of the key problems within QE.
With a Democrat in the White House, the season of the deficit hawk has returned. So, it’s worth going through the old arguments just to remind everyone that the best response to these people is […]
Crashes are often predicted, but the reasons behind these predictions can be interesting as in this article by Richard Murphy Richard Murphy is a Visiting Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of […]
What few seem to register is the complete failure of Europe’s political class in 2020, not to mention the missed opportunities that the COVID crisis offered. This is not only with regard to health, but […]
The government has learned to use QE to fund the coronavirus crisis, which is all well and good except for the fact that there are significant wealth inequalities arising as a result as some in […]
On November 26th, Yanis Varoufakis appeared on The Jolly Swagman Podcast. For all of us economics nerds, this is the best Christmas present one could ask for. What threw me off my chair was Varoufakis’ opinion on “degrowth.” As a […]
It is great we have so many concepts to reverse climate change. But how to stop governments prioritising profit and environmental destruction? Ian Gough is author of Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism […]
Earlier this year Phil Dobbie asked Steve keen for his predictions for 2020. Without a whiff of COVID -19 IN THE AIR, Steve talked of a capitalist economy on government life support. On that he […]
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