Professor Bill Mitchell – The need for full employment
In this video clip, Professor Bill Mitchell outlines two different lines of argument with regard to unemployment. The economic cost to the nation and the human rights agenda. The long-term economic...
View ArticleCan the Eurozone survive its Crisis?
In May 2012, Marco d’Eramo wrote: It is plain to all: monetary union is dividing Europe. The divide is political, social, economic in particular. The euro was designed as a tool to cement European...
View ArticleAusterity is a Political Choice not Economic Necessity
By Prue Plumridge Last week Matthew Lyn (a columnist for Bloomberg) wrote in an article published in Money Week that, “the policies on offer under Corbynomics would quickly ruin the economy”. This was...
View ArticleNeoliberal TINA Economics is Flat Earth thinking
By Prue Plumridge Belief in a flat Earth is found in the oldest writings and early Mesopotamian maps showed the world as a flat disk floating in the ocean. Thankfully things have moved on since that...
View ArticleBrighton Fringe – #MMT with the one and only Prof. Bill Mitchell #Lab17
Many of us now realise that the scares about deficits and debt are nothing more than useful devices to justify cuts and sell-offs of our public services. Austerity is a political choice. There...
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