Professor of economics at UWE Bristol. Chair of Post-Keynesian Economics Society. Interested in macro, finance, banking, climate change, inequality, demographics.
https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JoMichell
Jo Michell
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Could be read alongside this less polemical piece which looks at a selection of Green policies — rent control, wealth and land taxes, carbon tax, green investment, nationalisation etc. www.economicsobservatory.com/what-are-the...
Got a piece up on Polanski, MMT, economic policy and all that.
Punchline: Polanski is right that the current institutional and operational framework is past its sell by date, and Greens are asking the right questions — but Richard Murphy’s MMT is not the answer.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
If there is a form of AI development that might come closest to the Left's goal to break the power of authoritarian tech oligarchs, then enabling the emergence of cheap variants that can be used offline and thus destroy the hypercentralised rentierism of Silicon Valley and the CCP might be an option
