World History EncyclopediaMay 11
Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 4 November 1979 to 28 November 1990. #History #MargaretThatcher #FalklandsWar #GreatBritain #Monetarism #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-26202-en/
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady of British Politics

Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 4 November 1979 to 28 November 1990. Although the United Kingdom emerged militarily victorious from World War II (1939-45), it was...

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Show thread𝚛𝚊𝚝Dec 5, 2025
Part 1 — The Land of Make Believe
Part one opens the dream world that Mrs Thatcher promised, and the ghosts that came back to disrupt it. When power begins to shift in society, everything becomes unstable, exciting and frightening. It wasn’t just the decline of political power, it was also a seismic shift in consciousness in Britain at the end of the 20th century, driven by individualism. #Monetarism #StephenHawking #BlackHoles #NF #Dubclashsoundsystem #Wankerontheline #Racistattacks #BucksFizz
Andii אַנדִֽיNov 25, 2025
''North Sea oil and gas revenues surged just as what looked like a government-generated recession hit. Rather than being used to modernise British manufacturing, rebuild infrastructure, or create sovereign wealth for future generations, oil and gas revenues were channelled into funding mass unemployment, cutting taxes for the wealthy, .... Britain burned its future to fund the anti-socialist neoliberal project. "
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/23/britains-oil-gas-and-finance-curses/
#monetarism #UKpolitics #neoliberalism
Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses

 In 1993, the economist Richard Auty coined the term “resource curse” to describe the paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often grow more slowly and less equitably than those without. The United Kingdom is not usually placed in that category. In my opinion, it should be. What happened to Britain...

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Jun 27, 2025
“Foreigners own a quarter of #US #corporatebonds” adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-... (the stuff on #MargaretThatcher and #monetarism is interesting, too)
Dave VolekApr 12, 2025

Documentary Review: The Money Masters

Learn about the mysteries of modern monetarist theory (MMT). And a few conspiracy theories:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=19

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#monetarism

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Dave VolekMar 7, 2025

Documentary Review: The Money Masters

This documentary is a bit on the controversial, but it is also a primer about monetarist economics---if this is something you want to learn.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=19

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#monetarism

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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Mar 5, 2025

🔴 **Late Wittgenstein’s money**

_“In particular, I first consider the inflation hypothesis as a derivative of the commodity theory of money and therefore inherently linked to a purely quantitative regime of monetary management. I then argue that, based on the hinge proposition that money is a creature of law, money’s value might instead be grasped and engaged on the basis of its political and qualitative dimensions.”_

Steininger, L.E. (2025) ‘Late Wittgenstein’s money’, Finance and Society, pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2024.27.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Finance #Society #Monetarism #Wittgenstein #Philosophy #Money #Academia #Academics @finance @philosophy

Late Wittgenstein’s money | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core

Late Wittgenstein’s money

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Dave VolekFeb 4, 2025

Documentary Review: The Money Masters

This documentary provides interesting insights into Modern Monetary Theory:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=19

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#monetarism

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Jakob SteffenJan 18, 2025
When #inflation exploded in 2021/22, apologists of #monetarism cried wolf (cf. attached article by the @financialtimes's Martin Wolf - pun intended). Yet they fell victim (again) to the original fallacy of their creed - thread 🧵
https://www.ft.com/content/0cd1d666-8842-4c82-8344-07c4e433a408
Dave VolekNov 20, 2024

Documentary Review: The Money Masters

This documentary provides some details of how central banks work. It also gives us some plausible conspiracies of central banks involved in wars.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&id=19

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#monetarism

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