This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Equality and the politics of care
This post is a draft of an idea I have been working on. I deliberately flag that this is not the finished article as yet,
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Why your vote doesn’t count
The UK claims to be a democracy. But under first-past-the-post, millions of votes simply do not count. In this video, I explain how our electoral
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The UK government should be buying bonds
Politicians and economic commentators are obsessing about the view that the cost of UK government borrowing is increasing as a consequence of the war in
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New glossary entry: petrodollars
I was specifically asked about this topic, and as it was by Jacqueline, with whom I am on holiday, I claim that as justification for
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The geopolitical world we have has reached its limits
There is a theory that the world’s politicians are relying upon at present, which is that “Trump always chickens out”. The logic is that a
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Neoliberal economics is fiction
Neoliberalism has dominated economics and politics for 45 years, despite being based on nothing more than myths, falsehoods, and fantasies that should have discredited the cult promoting it
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Rethinking YouTube
Last week, I talked about the problem we have had with the YouTube algorithm and that we would need to make some changes. The response
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The national debt is not what you think
We have just published this short video on YouTube and many other channels. This is the transcript: The national debt is not what you think.
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