Volume 11 No.4 - July/August 2019
Contents
A national depository systemRadical banking alternative
William HummelEmployment for All
The case for a Job Guarantee scheme
Asad ZamanShould student loans be waived?
Response to a Quora question
EditorWashington Post is preoccupied with the national debt while ignoring our wrecked planet
Our kids are being misled on priorities
Dean BakerThe world of free market drugs
Removing patent monopolies
Dean BakerGermany will close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants
Germany will rely primarily on renewable energy
EditorThe search for an alternative to GDP to measure national progress
The New Zealand experience
Murray Graham PattersonThe RBA Governor is completely wrong about the federal budget and it matters
Suggestions for getting our economy back on track
Steven HailCornell University study supports public bank model for infrastructure financing
Case study of the Bank of North Dakota
Public Banking InstituteIs money really neutral in the long run?
Money matters in both the short run and the long run
Lars SyllKrugman vs Krugman
Paul Krugman does not recognize that the state could not actively manage the economy if money was neutral
EditorFunctional Finance and MMT
Krugman still does not get it!Editor
Has neo-liberalism turned us all into psychopaths?
The role of the success narrative in our life choices
Paul VerhaegheMending hearts: how a ‘repair economy’ creates a kinder, more caring community
Promoting a circular economy
Katherine WilsonMark Diesendorf answers questions recently submitted to Quora on the economics of renewable energy
Editor
The Visible Hand we need today
The “invisible hand” seems to be guiding us in the wrong direction
J.DAlt
Some aspects of federal government finances
Examining myths and misconceptions about the government’s fiscal operations
John Hermann
