Students get tuned into money creation
14 March, 2016Last month, I visited Manchester and Sheffield on the invitation of Adrian Byrne and Peter Verity, who are part of the Positive Money groups in those cities. They were connecting with their universities’ alternative economics societies to introduce Positive Money and the issues surrounding money creation to students – Post-Crash in Manchester and the Alternative [...]
Presenting the flaws of our money system to economics societies
19 November, 2015As both an economics graduate and keen supporter of Positive Money, I am convinced that we should be engaging with economics students as much as possible. There is a dedicated sub-stream of them who are rightly disillusioned with the way the subject is being taught at an undergraduate level (i.e. with textbooks very similar to [...]