- Economic questions: the Karl Polanyi questionon 27 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been, Read the full article...
- Light, entropy and why care keeps society aliveon 27 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
Everything tends towards decay unless energy is applied. That is not ideology, it is physics. In this video, I explore light through the lens of Read the full article...
- Boxing Day waderson 26 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
A wintry Boxing Day birding session at Welney produced this. Of the three waders in the centre of the picture there is a redshank at Read the full article...
- Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of careon 26 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
Zack Polanski issued a Christmas message yesterday that demanded the country solve the problem of small boats crossing the English Channel. As he pointed out, Read the full article...
- The economy runs on lighton 26 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
Every economy runs on light. That is not a metaphor – it is physics. Without light, there is no life. Without life, there is no Read the full article...
- On the nature of light – entropyon 25 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
To link to the themes in today's video and the whole Christmas series, this is by Max Richter. It has the title noted above. His Read the full article...
- Deficit myths at Christmason 25 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
As if one Christmas day video was not enough, Steve Keen put this out last night. It's a rework of a previous video here. If Read the full article...
- Christmas and the gift of lighton 25 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
At Christmas, cultures across the world speak of light returning. This is not theology or astronomy. It is about survival, hope, and responsibility in hard Read the full article...
- My blog has gone on holidayson 25 December 2025 by bill (William Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory)
My blog is on holiday until Tuesday, January 6, 2026. We are planning to finish the manuscript for the Second Edition of our Macroeconomics textbook by year’s end and that is what I am working fervently on in the next week. I am also preparing for a conversation next week with the Post-Neoliberalism Oral History…
- The light, this morningon 24 December 2025 by Richard Murphy (Funding the Future)
At Welney, this morning:

