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Lord Adair Turner on Money Creation and Banks
Lecture, Cass Business School, February 6, 2013 At a lecture at London’s Cass Business School, Lord Adair Turner broke ranks and called for an end to allowing private banks to create the nation’s money: instead, turning this vital function over to the government as money-creator. Turner proposed that governments …
Book Reviews: ‘Economics After The Crisis’ And ‘Money And Sustainability’
“Economics After the Crisis,” by Adair Turner, MIT Press 2012 “Money and Sustainability,” by Bernard Lietaer, Christian Arnsperger, Sally Goerner, Stefan Brunnhuber, Triarchy Press, 2012 The essential link between “Economics After the Crisis” by Adair Turner and “Money and Sustainability” by Bernard Lietaer and his co-authors is the agreements that the authors arrive at independently: …
French bank becomes the first to introduce Tobin Tax
French bank becomes the first to introduce Tobin Tax Banks says tax will raise €100,000 per annum for Millennium Development Goals This step is very significant. It tells us that it has now made sense to a bank to introduce a Tobin tax on its own. Of course, the amount …
Adair Turner on Beyond GDP
Adair Turner, head of their Financial Services Authority on what’s wrong with gdp! Keynote speech to Bretton Woods Conference 2011, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Click here to see the video!
Adair Turner on Beyond GDP
Adair Turner, head of their Financial Services Authority on what’s wrong with gdp! Keynote speech to Bretton Woods Conference 2011, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) http://ineteconomics.org/video/bretton-woods/adair-lord-turners-keynote