• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Go to Positive Money Europe
  • Go to Positive Money US

Positive Money

Making money and banking work for society

  • About us
    • Our vision
    • Who we are
    • History & highlights
    • Contact us
    • Current vacancies
    • In the media
    • Funding & Annual Reports
  • What we do
    • Educate & empower
    • Research and Policy
    • Campaign & local groups
    • Influence decision makers
    • In the media
    • International Movement
    • Events
  • Resources
    • Videos
    • Publications
    • Local group resources
    • Lobby your MP
    • Organise an Event
    • Policy resources
    • Shop
  • Press
  • Blog
  • Donate
  • Positive Money Europe
  • Positive Money US

Josh Ryan-Collins (Guest Author)

Josh Ryan-Collins (Guest Author)

Josh is Head of Research at IIPP, working on the economics of innovation, inclusive growth, economic rent in modern economies and measuring public value. Before joining IIPP, Josh was Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), one of the UK’s leading think tanks. There he lead a research program focused on money, credit, banking and the macroeconomics of land and housing.



Should credit be guided? (IIPP)

3 January, 2019
This blog was originally posted on the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose blog, hosted on Medium. In academic and policy circles there is deep mistrust of public sector involvement in credit allocation, much more than in the credit allocation decisions made by commercial banks. This mistrust continues, despite the financial crisis of 2007–08 [...]


Exposed: The banks’ £23bn hidden subsidy

31 January, 2017
Who controls the creation of new money? Many people might answer ‘the state’ or the ‘central bank’. But the hard currency printed by the Bank of England only amounts to 3% of the money in circulation in Britain today. The rest? It’s created and allocated by commercial banks in the form of digital money – [...]


Can public money creation work? Some answers from Canadian history

10 November, 2015
  The theoretical and policy arguments for monetary reform are becoming more accepted by economists and establishment figures. The financial crisis blew apart the idea that deregulated private money creation by commercial banks leads to more efficient outcomes and allocation of capital, as has been noted by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and Lord [...]

Primary Sidebar

Get our latest campaign updates

Recent Posts

  • Interest rate decision – Positive Money response
  • Concerns raised over vested interests of Lords pushing for financial deregulation
  • We need more than new homes: new census data confirms UK building stock is growing faster than population
  • 12 highlights from 2022
  • Positive Money at The World Transformed

Footer

Follow us on social media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.


Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions


Positive Money is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales. Registered number 07253015.
Registered office: 104 Davina House, 137-149 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7ET.


Positive Money Europe