Scribbled – Andrea Capussela: The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline

This was a fairly “a la carte” presentation of why bank creation of money matters as part of a Positive Money talk at the Hackney Downs Studios on March 14 2018. Steve started with how […]

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 Economic growth is apparently the holy grail, rooted in outdated measurements like GDP and arbitrary stock-market digits… But what if these assumptions […]

Brett Christophers joins PTO to talk about his new book, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? We chatted about the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, why […]