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.
EU politics
The Real News Network – Costas Lapavitsas: Class Struggle Over Brexit
In the confusion surrounding Brexit, Costas Lapavitsas – who is pro-Brexit – does a brilliant job of explaining the current situation and analysing the political conflict, and that relatively objectively. The irony: it takes a […]
Austerity
Clara Mattei – The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism
A talk based on Mattei’s recent book with the same title
Deregulation
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Is it time to revert to more state ownership?
It’s a question being asked more and more. How many of the things that we privatised should be brought back under state control, as energy companies record massive profits, yet those on low incomes are […]
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