“...marvelously helpful and has some stunning historical vistas..." Hugh Downs “...provides the needed background for seeing the basic structural issues at work" Michael Hudson “...a masterful work” Michael Kumhof Given Stephen Zarlenga turns out to be a prominent proponent of money reform in the US, it seems to have taken me a long time to … Continue reading Myth of Money – Story of Power – Stephen Zarlenga’s Lost Science of Money
Der Titel “Der Mythos vom Geld – die Geschichte der Macht” trifft das Buch doppelt gut, denn es ist nicht nur eine chartalistische Geschichte von Geld als Macht, sondern gerade die Geschichte der Verschleierung dieser Macht…
>employment, jobs, labour, wages, work <positioning <agency see also> productivity ft.com 10-3-2023 How Cal Newport rewrote the productivity gospel - by Courtney Weaver ... Newport, who has the affably square looks and slicked side parting of a Mormon missionary, doesn’t do much public speaking. For one, he doesn’t like to travel too far from his … Continue reading careers, employment, jobs, labour, wages, work
"Geolibertarian experimental monetary realist" Tuure Parkkinen's root bug economics represents an audaciously original "PraxisTheorie" of the type only an institutional outsider would dare come up with.
theatlantic.com 2009 The Revenge of Karl Marx - What the author of Das Kapital reveals about the current economic crisis By Christopher Hitchens THE LATE HUW WHELDON of the BBC once described to me a series, made in the early days of radio, about celebrated exiles who had lived in London. At one stage, this had involved tracking … Continue reading The Revenge of Karl Marx 2009 Christopher Hitchens
"A fool is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing". Central banker Mark Carney has diagnosed a crisis in value(s). He doesn't just mean prices being misaligned with values as in frothy asset overvaluations. That's just a symptom of a deeper malaise. The central idea of his book, says the … Continue reading Banking on Values
inflation always monetary? - mainstream and hetero theories of inflation, how to measure inflation - decompose observed inflation into its monetary, demand-pull, cost-push and structural components - Inflation is a monetary and redistributional phenomenon
MMT portal page - fiscal, macro. monetary - updates below - see also 1/2021 De-facto MMT disequilibrating DSGE ? 9/202o German Economist Seess MMT Across the Sea 9/2019 Apropos of MMT 2/2019 MMT and Millennial Socialism US/UK Monetary/Fiscal EURO Monetary/Fiscal MMT - updates - 1-2023 mauricehoefgen.substack.com 14-1-2023 Er will die MMT entzaubern, entzaubert aber nur … Continue reading MMT Modern Monetary Theory
"Inflation ... has left many observers scratching their heads as to why the current level ... does not match the current state of the real economy ..." said ex ECB board member Sabine Lautenschläger in a recent speech. The Economist discerns "strange new rules", devotes a special report to "The End of Inflation?" and concludes that inflation is … Continue reading Head Scratching Inflation
