Richard Murphy

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Richard Murphy
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Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Co-founder, the Green New Deal. Also blogging at www.taxresearch.org.uk . 
I post on economics, politics, tax and climate change (and even accounting) because they make big differences to our lives. My bias is to the left but I am not party aligned. 
All views my own, not my employer’s.
Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control
Funding the Future
Wes Streeting’s exercise in thought control
The Guardian reports this morning that: The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health cond...
 Wes Streeting is claiming there are too many diagnoses of anxiety, autism, ADHD and AuDHD in our society. But when some people are profoundly oppressed by neoliberalism, and others cannot comply with its demand for uniformity, what he is actually doing is an exercise in thought control - seeking to destroy what he thinks is evidence of dissent for his toxic world view.
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care
Funding the Future
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenti...
 Governments have not cared about people for far too long. In my draft alternative Budget, I would change that, for good. Politics is nothing if it is not about care.
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 5: Reforming the UK’s Savings System
Funding the Future
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 5: Reforming the UK’s Savings System
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenti...
 The money to transform the UK exists; it's just locked into a savings system that makes no use of it. That has to change.
Financial markets across the world are flashing red. The S&P 500 has finally turned down after weeks and even months of irrational optimism. The FTSE 100 is sliding. Gold is falling. Bitcoin and the broader crypto market are collapsing. Are we ready for the consequences? I’m not sure we are.
The UK doesn’t lack homes; it lacks affordable ones. Developers won’t build what people can’t buy, and the Treasury won’t fund social housing. Poverty, rent stress, and political anger rise together. The answer is public investment, not market faith. Read on Funding the Future →
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The market is not the solution to our housing problems
The FT is annoying me, again, this morning with an article by someone called Neil Hudson that opens with this: There is a line about the UK proper...
 #HousingCrisis #Economics #UKPolitics
Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it
Funding the Future
Growth is not coming back
Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of the Bud...
 In an article in the FT yesterday, its long-term columnist, Martin Wolf, suggested we must sacrifice both people and planet to growth to supposedly save democracy. Almost everything he wrote was wrong. It's time to move on from the ideas of neoliberal dinosaurs dedicated to destruction to a politics of care.