Avis Williamson
@avismw.bsky.social
Avid learner through reading and listening. Growing knowledge of how politics demeans our understanding of how governments fund the private sector thanks to people with expertise who have become friends. Firm supporter of climate activists to grow change.
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“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
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The Modern Money Lab Economics of Sustainability January series this year will feature the following academics - Pavlina Tcherneva, Stephanie Kelton, John Harvey, Scott Fullwiler, Tim Foxon and Phil Lawn.
More details soon or from steven.hail@torrens.edu.au.
Do come along.
More details soon or from steven.hail@torrens.edu.au.
Do come along.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Modern Money Lab Economics of Sustainability January series this year will feature the following academics - Pavlina Tcherneva, Stephanie Kelton, John Harvey, Scott Fullwiler, Tim Foxon and Phil Lawn.
More details soon or from steven.hail@torrens.edu.au.
Do come along.
More details soon or from steven.hail@torrens.edu.au.
Do come along.
@sandyhorne.bsky.social how about this for a shot? It's an albatross near Tairoa Head in Dunedin, Aotearoa/NZ
October 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
@sandyhorne.bsky.social how about this for a shot? It's an albatross near Tairoa Head in Dunedin, Aotearoa/NZ
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One of the biggest Thatcherite myths is that Capitalism and a society with markets are the same thing.
David Graeber pointed out this is not historically true.
David Graeber pointed out this is not historically true.
October 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
One of the biggest Thatcherite myths is that Capitalism and a society with markets are the same thing.
David Graeber pointed out this is not historically true.
David Graeber pointed out this is not historically true.
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Reminder that if you reduce inequality you reduce crime. #auspol
🚨 NEW: Asked to name "the biggest issue facing Victoria today", voters say crime, according to a poll from DemosAU just over a year from the state election
September 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Reminder that if you reduce inequality you reduce crime. #auspol
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Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide.
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide.
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
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China's progress on renewable energy is breathtaking. In the first half of this year they installed more than twice as much solar as the rest of the world *combined*.
This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.
This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.
September 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
China's progress on renewable energy is breathtaking. In the first half of this year they installed more than twice as much solar as the rest of the world *combined*.
This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.
This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.
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Step 1: Check out our brand new website.
Step 2: Book your place at our free public screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough on 18 October.
Step 3: Start telling a different story and help us give credit where credit’s due.
Step 2: Book your place at our free public screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough on 18 October.
Step 3: Start telling a different story and help us give credit where credit’s due.
Welcome to Where Credit’s Due
The stories we tell about our communities and the people that build them are intimately bound up with the way we account for them in monetary terms. Right now, we’re telling the wrong stories. We’r…
wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Step 1: Check out our brand new website.
Step 2: Book your place at our free public screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough on 18 October.
Step 3: Start telling a different story and help us give credit where credit’s due.
Step 2: Book your place at our free public screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough on 18 October.
Step 3: Start telling a different story and help us give credit where credit’s due.
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Thursday's blog post (18/09) is now posted (12:44 EAST) - Australian labour market takes a backward step - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62776
Australian labour market takes a backward step – William Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory
billmitchell.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Thursday's blog post (18/09) is now posted (12:44 EAST) - Australian labour market takes a backward step - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62776
Have a read of this @peggysanders.bsky.social
Plain frightening!
Plain frightening!
Monday's blog post (15/09) is now posted (17:07 EAST) - Terrestrial water storage capacity is declining fast and is hardly getting any attention - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62770
Terrestrial water storage capacity is declining fast and is hardly getting any attention – William Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory
billmitchell.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Have a read of this @peggysanders.bsky.social
Plain frightening!
Plain frightening!
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Monday's blog post (15/09) is now posted (17:07 EAST) - Terrestrial water storage capacity is declining fast and is hardly getting any attention - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62770
Terrestrial water storage capacity is declining fast and is hardly getting any attention – William Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory
billmitchell.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Monday's blog post (15/09) is now posted (17:07 EAST) - Terrestrial water storage capacity is declining fast and is hardly getting any attention - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62770
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We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Increasing inequality in agri-food value chains: global trends from 1995-2020
Agri-food systems are increasingly globalised. In the last three decades, as national food systems have become more interdependent, the distribution o…
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September 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@peggysanders.bsky.social
Currently reading John T Harvey's Contending Perspectives In Economics. He covers all the main areas of economic thinking and comments on each paradigm. You might be interested. It's well worth a read.
Currently reading John T Harvey's Contending Perspectives In Economics. He covers all the main areas of economic thinking and comments on each paradigm. You might be interested. It's well worth a read.
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
@peggysanders.bsky.social
Currently reading John T Harvey's Contending Perspectives In Economics. He covers all the main areas of economic thinking and comments on each paradigm. You might be interested. It's well worth a read.
Currently reading John T Harvey's Contending Perspectives In Economics. He covers all the main areas of economic thinking and comments on each paradigm. You might be interested. It's well worth a read.
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Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.
September 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.
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If you’re concerned about the economy then do check out
www.torrens.edu.au/studying-wit...
www.torrens.edu.au/studying-wit...
August 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If you’re concerned about the economy then do check out
www.torrens.edu.au/studying-wit...
www.torrens.edu.au/studying-wit...
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We run the world's only global economics Master's degree based on modern monetary theory (#MMT).
Next intake - next month.
It comes highly recommended by existing students, graduates and academics, including my friend Stephanie Kelton.
modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/
Next intake - next month.
It comes highly recommended by existing students, graduates and academics, including my friend Stephanie Kelton.
modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/
August 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
We run the world's only global economics Master's degree based on modern monetary theory (#MMT).
Next intake - next month.
It comes highly recommended by existing students, graduates and academics, including my friend Stephanie Kelton.
modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/
Next intake - next month.
It comes highly recommended by existing students, graduates and academics, including my friend Stephanie Kelton.
modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/
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Because Modern Money Lab is not only concerned with MMT, albeit MMT is essential to what we do, let me share part of an introduction video by Dr Annie Bond for a further subject in ecological economics which we have just added to our courses.
August 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Because Modern Money Lab is not only concerned with MMT, albeit MMT is essential to what we do, let me share part of an introduction video by Dr Annie Bond for a further subject in ecological economics which we have just added to our courses.
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Why “spend before tax” is the key to unlocking a future for young people www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... If we understand that we can demand secure homes, good jobs, free education, affordable childcare, and a liveable planet now, and not in some imagined future when the books “balance”.
Why “spend before tax” is the key to unlocking a future for young people
In a post I published here yesterday, I explained that in a country like the UK, which issues its own currency, has an effective tax system, a functioning legal system, and with that currency being ac...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
August 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Why “spend before tax” is the key to unlocking a future for young people www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... If we understand that we can demand secure homes, good jobs, free education, affordable childcare, and a liveable planet now, and not in some imagined future when the books “balance”.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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We believe MMT, widely understood, will lead to reform of the fiscal rules in the UK & the fiscal framework in the EU.
Looking forward to MMT workshops in Amsterdam, Sheffield & Vienna next month (and Adelaide later this month)
modernmoneylab.org.au/events/
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Looking forward to MMT workshops in Amsterdam, Sheffield & Vienna next month (and Adelaide later this month)
modernmoneylab.org.au/events/
modernmoneylab.org.au/wp-content/u...
August 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
We believe MMT, widely understood, will lead to reform of the fiscal rules in the UK & the fiscal framework in the EU.
Looking forward to MMT workshops in Amsterdam, Sheffield & Vienna next month (and Adelaide later this month)
modernmoneylab.org.au/events/
modernmoneylab.org.au/wp-content/u...
Looking forward to MMT workshops in Amsterdam, Sheffield & Vienna next month (and Adelaide later this month)
modernmoneylab.org.au/events/
modernmoneylab.org.au/wp-content/u...
Yes @peggysanders.bsky.social Jason Hickel lists them all in his book The Divide. It's worth a read.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs: "Between 1945 and 1989, the U.S. carried out at least 70 regime change operations.
"The United States accused the Soviet Union of wanting to take over the world, then used that as an explanation to take over the world every other place."
"The United States accused the Soviet Union of wanting to take over the world, then used that as an explanation to take over the world every other place."
July 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Yes @peggysanders.bsky.social Jason Hickel lists them all in his book The Divide. It's worth a read.
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"If you didn’t do it at forty, then do it at sixty. The only thing that matters—is that you do it!" (Tilda Swinton)
I have an idea...
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I have an idea...
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Masters of Economics of Sustainability
Looking for a career in sustainability economics? Complete your Master of Economics of Sustainability online. Find out more here.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"If you didn’t do it at forty, then do it at sixty. The only thing that matters—is that you do it!" (Tilda Swinton)
I have an idea...
www.torrens.edu.au/courses/busi...
I have an idea...
www.torrens.edu.au/courses/busi...
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If cutting welfare, privatisation & transferring more wealth to the rich worked then the economy would be booming for everyone!
But after 40+ years of doing all that everything has got worse. Only an idiot or a Neoclassical economist would think more of the same is the solution.
But after 40+ years of doing all that everything has got worse. Only an idiot or a Neoclassical economist would think more of the same is the solution.
July 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If cutting welfare, privatisation & transferring more wealth to the rich worked then the economy would be booming for everyone!
But after 40+ years of doing all that everything has got worse. Only an idiot or a Neoclassical economist would think more of the same is the solution.
But after 40+ years of doing all that everything has got worse. Only an idiot or a Neoclassical economist would think more of the same is the solution.