Fiscal Deficit
Real independence would mean people getting their purchasing power back: Prabhat Patnaik
Noted economist Prabhat Patnaik and Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talk about state of India’s economy on the 75th anniversary and the government’s insistence on sticking to fiscal deficits at the cost of spending
What could be wrong with a fiscal deficit?
If wealth inequality is to be prevented from becoming worse than the horrendous level it has already attained, then the only way this can be done is by larger government spending that is financed by a tax on the rich, either a profit tax or a wealth tax
Why Corbyn’s agenda does not translate to ‘attack on wealth creation’
The dangers arise because of capitalists’ willful opposition rather than anything in the economics of the agenda itself
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