Work for all is the goal society must have. Brilliant text on the benefits of full employment and its positive side effects. Niklas Blomqvist questions the idea that the market itself can create full employment. For example, Blomqvist points out that attempts to follow this path in the last thirty years have not produced the desired results. He emphasizes that work for…
Category: State ownership
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Preventive and repressive measures are not enough against gang crime and crime
Against gang crime, criminality and social unrest, school and social services are important preventive and rehabilitative efforts, as well as police and prison significant repressive efforts are important parts. But even more important is to offer good jobs to everyone with long-term employment and good wages. Work is historically one of Sweden's most effective integration and order-creating factors. Unemployment also seems to lead…
The public sector is needed for new technology
As you may remember from high school textbooks, the race between the developed nations during the Cold War led to technological achievements. These inventions benefited society and business. Business could generate large profits. The Italian-American economics professor Mariana Mazzucato has discussed this phenomenon in the book "The Entrepreneurial State". Much other research also shows that product development of competitive new…
Together we are strong
The red-green parties want to increase redistribution. More money for school, care, welfare and environmental work. At the price of small tax increases. For those who earn over SEK 30/month... The alliance instead wants to lower taxes and privatize emergency hospitals. They want market rents and lower unemployment benefits. Not only that; they want lower starting wages for "simple…
Red-green election strategy 2018
It would be good if the red-greens before the election could show what kind of society the right wants: Lowest possible social security, contributions and worker wages Easier to fire Unsafe work environment Market rents Fee-based school, health care and university Then I think people would vote for the red-greens. The red-greens should go to the polls on: Raised wages in the wage-lagging...
The EU is trying to go around national parliaments to get TTIP through
TTIP is the so-called free trade agreement between the EU and the US which specifically wants foreign investors in private courts with special rules to be able to sue the agreement countries whose decisions may lead to reduced opportunities for increased profit for said foreign investors. This really threatens the possibility of strengthening welfare, environmental and consumer rights. There are an awful lot of…
Ownership and democracy
Public organizations govern the Swedish people politically. We, with the state or the municipalities as owners, can influence the work of the boards. We can demand transparency. We can decide how the organization should develop. An advantage of the public sector is that the state/municipalities can decide whether increased resources should go to personnel and/or operations. In private welfare companies, the owners themselves manage…