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The Deficit Myth

By Stephanie Kelton

'Indispensable ... Read it' Naomi Klein

'A rock star in her field' The Times

For April we're delighted to be publishing a New York Times bestseller, The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton.

Supporting the economy, paying for healthcare, creating new jobs, preventing a climate apocalypse: how can we pay for it all? Leading economic thinker Stephanie Kelton shows how misguided that question is, and how a radical new approach can maximise our potential as a society. Everything that we've been led to believe about deficits and the role of money and government spending is wrong. Rather than asking the self-defeating question of how to pay for the crucial improvements our society needs, Kelton guides us to ask: which deficits actually matter?

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We hope you can join us in London on Sat 24th May for a fantastic spring event with Jeremy Corbyn and Mikaela Loach. Alongside our amazing speakers we will have interactive workshops offering practical skills for community organising and combatting the far-right through collective reading, debating and organising.

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  1. 30
    Apr

    Leeds (Left Bank) Reading Group

    in person · Starts at 6:30 p.m. BST · 5 days, 22 hours from now
  2. 7
    May

    Online Reading Group

    virtual · Starts at 7:30 p.m. BST · 1 week, 5 days from now
  3. 10
    May

    North America Online LBC Reading Group, Discussing The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

    virtual · Starts at 10 a.m. BST · 2 weeks, 1 day from now
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Founded by publisher Victor Gollancz in 1936, the original Left Book Club had 57,000 members. It is widely credited with paving the way for Labour’s landslide victory in 1945 and the creation of the welfare state. At least eight members of the 1945 Labour cabinet were Left Book Club authors, including Clement Attlee. Another famous Left Book Club author was George Orwell, as the LBC published the original edition of The Road to Wigan Pier.

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