Why do we need economic growth?
Is the political fixation with this issuse misplaced?
The Politics of Care
Exploring economics, politics, and society through care, reciprocity, sustainability, and justice, challenging power, markets, and orthodoxies to rebuild collective wellbeing.
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Understanding economics: What are economic resources?
The latest in my series that seeks to explain economics as I think it really is
University failure
The question for all new undergraduates this autumn is not will they finish their course, but will their university?
The unreasonable person
They are the pre-condition for change
ADHD is a social construct, but so too is cancer
Unless arguments about neurodivergence are appropriately framed, they become prejudice, not debate
Why do banks take deposits?
If banks do not lend savers' money, why do they take deposits?
What is macroeconomics?
All of economics is confusing, but macroeconomics is more confusing to most people than much of the subject, so just what is it?
Bank interest
How does paying interest on money created costlessly by banks work?
How banks create money
Many people still think banks lend out savers' money. They don't. They create the money they lend.
What is microeconomics?
It is the study of how society really makes economic choices
Why tax?
What is tax for?
Bonds
Government bonds are hard to understand, but not that hard
What is the economy for?
The second in my series on understanding economics