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David Barmes – Why Covid-19 should make us Rethink the Concept of Inflation

May 4, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Despite central banks’ coordinated moves to pump more money into the economy, inflation is unlikely to occur for now. Rather, the current crisis is generating deflationary pressures. Covid-19 shouldn’t prompt worries about inflation but rather […]

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Climate Crisis

David Barmes – The looming danger of a high-carbon monetary response to the coronavirus crisis

April 1, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Positive Moneys David Barmes argues that renewed QE strategies undermine the Paris Agreement and miss a key opportunity to promote a greener economy Read here

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Economics

David Barmes – Corona Crisis: Now’s the Time to Stop Worshipping the False God of GDP

March 31, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We must resist GDP-based arguments which attempt to justify a less stringent public health response to Covid-19. As we emerge from this crisis, returning to a senseless pursuit of endless growth would do more harm […]

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Climate Crisis

David Barmes – The UK’s Decoupling Delusion: Have We Really Divorced Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions?

February 18, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article could well apply to any of the advanced economies and is thus relevant for at least much of Europe. David Barmes is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency. Cross-posted […]

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Climate Crisis

David Barmes – There will be No Escape from Fires and Floods without a Transformation of our Economic System

January 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

As bushfires rip through Australia and a deluge floods Indonesia’s capital city, policymakers continue to place ecocidal economic growth above all else. Addressing climate and ecological breakdown will require nothing less than a deep social […]

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David Barmes – Banks Really are Magic Money Trees

December 1, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Most people, probably 99%, believe that banks are intermediaries between savers and investors. They aren’t. David Barmes is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency Cross-posted from Positive Money Banks really are […]

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Austerity

David Barmes – A Reformed Appointment Process of the IMF Won’t Cut It, the Whole Institution Needs an Overhaul

August 19, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stands for death, destruction, and repression. It does not solve problems, it pulverises them. David Barmes is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency Cross-posted from Positive […]

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Climate Crisis

David Barmes – Reflections on the State of Green Finance

August 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Another example of why capitalism is not capable of dealing with the Climate Catastrophe, nor offer any real solutions. David Barmes is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency Cross-posted from Positive […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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