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.
Economics
Mark Blyth – Why People Vote for Those Who Work Against Their Best Interests
Mark Blyth rubbishes the title of his lecture. People vote for what they want and he explains why they want what we have: Trump, Brexit, Duterte, but also Corbyn and Podemos.
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Is Greta Thunberg right?
Is it true that we’ve made no progress on climate change in the past two years as Greta Thurnberg has claimed? I fear that it is. This is why:
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