Benefit cuts are a form of violence creating more poverty and even leading to death, says academic.
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Huffington Post: Austerity And Cuts To Benefits Is ‘Social Murder’, New Research Claims
Corruption
The Guardian: Car lobby opposes EU safety bid that ‘would save 1,300 lives a year’
What is another 1,300 lives? Car manufacturers already send hundreds of thousands of Europeans to early deaths with their cheating devices in diesel cars. This will end with Germany intervening and telling the EU they […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: When two original MMT developers get together to discuss their work
Bill Mitchell/Warren Mosler provide a great primer on Modern Monetary Theory, and a reminder of 25 years of thinking/observation that’s gone into what’s become a precise body of work. Read here
Finance
The Asahi Shimbun – Stephanie Kelton: Japan shatters notion of deficit boogeyman
Modern monetary theory (MMT) is gaining much attention for its somewhat unorthodox view that governments do not have to worry about fiscal deficits. One of the main advocates of MMT is Stephanie Kelton, an economics […]
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