In this episode in our Green New Deal series, GISP Research Director Mathew Forstater discuses a proposal to combine ecological tax reform with Functional Finance. Ecological tax reform would use taxes, fines, subsidies, regulations, and other incentive-based tools to encourage a transition to sustainability. Functional Finance explains why we needn’t link taxes directly to spending by the national government, as the purpose of taxation is to prevent inflation and influence behavior, not to provide dollars for the government to spend. Hosted by GISP Research Director Mathew Forstater.
Geopolitics
Gideon Levy – Look how ugly you are: Israeli journalist holds up a mirror to his own society
This talk took place in 2022 The award winning Haaretz-journalist is one of few Israeli journalists that sheds a critical light over the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and blockade and repeating invasions of […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot – The New Political Story that could change everything
To get out of the mess we’re in, we need a new story that explains the present and guides the future, says author George Monbiot. Drawing on findings from psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, he […]
EU politics
Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world
From The Guardian Stephen Metcalf: Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world The word Neoliberalism has become a rhetorical weapon, but it properly names the reigning ideology of our era – one that venerates the […]
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