1. Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2018
   Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
2. The Business Page
   How To Read It and Understand the Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   
3. Das Capital, Volume 1
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
4. Capitalism for Beginners
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
5. Decline of the Dollar: A Marxist View of the Monetary Crisis
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1973
   Useful for a-deeper understanding of what you read about in the business pages.
6. Fictitious Capital and Contracted Social Reproduction Today: China and Permanent Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Once gain, as in 1914, capital requires, in order to survive as capital, a vast devalorization of all existing values, however great the destruction of human beings and means of production which that entails.
7. 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
   Enough
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
8. Markets Gone Mad
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Until recently, stocks had been on a tear that pushed valuations into the stratosphere. Volatility stayed low because Bernanke's easy money and QE made investors more placid, serene and mellow. They ventured further out on the risk curve and took more chances because they were convinced that the Fed "had their back" and that there was nothing to worry about. Then things began to fall apart.
9. Modern Capitalism and Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1975
   For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
10. Sanctions & the Dollar
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The recent round of sanctions aimed at Moscow over the crisis in the Ukraine could backfire on Washington by accelerating a move away from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. While in the short run American actions against Russia’s oil and gas industry will inflict economic pain on Moscow, in the long run the U.S. may lose some of its control over international finance.
11. Shooting the Hippo
    Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
12. Structural Adjustment
    Resource Type: Article
    The economics of structural adjustment in Canada.
13. Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.

Experts on Monetary Policy in the Sources Directory

1. African Union
2. Economic Community of Central African States
3. International Monetary Fund
4. Parliamentary Names & Numbers