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Funding the Future: Richard Murphy on developing a fairer and sustainable economy

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Unsurprisingly, given what else I get up to these days, I now spend less time talking to academic colleagues than I used to, but I am still on the staff at Sheffield, although the Professor Emeritus role is unpaid, and, as a result, I was in conversation with colleagues around some issues yesterday.

Three themes emerged from our discussions.

One was the absolute...


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The UK’s public finances are apparently in trouble again. That is the message being pushed yesterday after data showed that government borrowing in April was £24.3 billion, the second-highest April figure on record and con...


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I am aware that this post was published in error on Thursday evening without the video to which it relates. This time it has it. Please accept my apologies.

Brexit failed. Britain is poorer as a result, trade is harder, investment is weaker, and many of the promises made during the referendum campaign never materialised. The evidence increasingly suggests tha...


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I am, today, publishing an article in the 'Richard Murphy’s View On…' series on Substack. This explains my view on government bonds, which have been the subject of much discussion here of late.

The post is quite lengthy, and so I am not sh...


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As the FT reports this morning:

The blockbuster listings of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are set to prompt an unprecedented wave of buying and selling as new “fast entry” rules thrust the stocks straight into Wal...


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