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Breaking the Austerity Myth: The system is broken - but we can mend it. With Richard Murphy

Breaking the Austerity Myth: The system is broken - but we can mend it. With Richard Murphy

FromAccidental Gods


Breaking the Austerity Myth: The system is broken - but we can mend it. With Richard Murphy

FromAccidental Gods

ratings:
Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We all know the economy is broken - that the experiment of free market capitalism has driven us to the edge of extinction. The problem is working out what to replace it with that will help us to find new ways of being without creating such havoc that lives are destroyed in the process.   In this first of a two-part series, Richard Murphy explores ways we can change the current system to create a different world. Richard Murphy is a political economist, author of the book 'The Joy of Tax', and is a visiting professor at Sheffield, Anglia Ruskin and City universities. He's an adviser at the Fair Tax Mark and was deeply involved in creating the first iteration of the Green New Deal in the UK. He writes the Tax Research Blog, which shines bright lights on the economic illiteracy of free-market governments. In our conversation, we explore how money is made in the current system, the mythology of austerity and how the world could be if we all understood the nature of the lies.  When we all see the Emperor has no clothes, we can re-create a new way of doing and being. Tax Research Blog: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/Fair Tax Mark: https://fairtaxmark.netThe Joy of Tax: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Joy-of-Tax-by-Richard-Murphy-author/9780552171618Tax Justice Network: https://www.taxjustice.netThe Green New Deal: https://greennewdealgroup.org
Released:
Feb 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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