A Twelve Step Program to Restore Prosperity: The Bernie Sanders Plan
A summary of Bernie’s 2016 plan with a Randy Wray MMT twist.
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RP Book Club – The Case For A Job Guarantee
In the latest RP Book Club series, we’ll be featuring Pavlina Tcherneva’s ‘The Case For A Job Guarantee’. The author herself is joining us for one of the sessions. We will have 4 weekly meetings, beginning 6/17, with the last session on 7/8. We will begin promptly at 8:30pmE/5:30pmP and last roughly 2 hours, 1 …
Paying for Populism
True democracy is populism—is it not? It has always struck me as odd that “populism” is used to describe a fringe politics, motivated by grievances that are viewed as illegitimate complaining. But if the not-profit-making needs of local and regional communities are determined and addressed by a democratic, majoritarian process, isn’t that what real “populism” …
Labor and the Jobs Guarantee
April 1, 8, and 15 at 1pm EDT for a deep dive into defining a labor-driven Job Guarantee and highlighting its role in achieving a #GreenNewDeal. Join us! A Job Guarantee series in partnership with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – New York Office, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity – GISP, United Electrical Workers (UE) and Democratic …
Understanding MMT and the Job Guarantee in the Global South
This webinar will briefly present the MMT analytical framework and demonstrate its validity for developing countries. The presentation will articulate how we can use a Job Guarantee program in the Global South as a platform for acquiring higher degrees of monetary sovereignty.
Considering and Critiquing Universal Basic Income: Introduction
UBI is both an important topic in its own right and a useful lens for examining recurrent virtues and vices in projects of partial decommodification and universal provision.