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...Open University teaching is that it is much more beneficial for a student to work actively with a text than simply to read on and on, passively trying to absorb and remember it all. Sometimes we set in-text activities or exercises to test your grasp of key points, but that is not what we are going to do here. Instead, I recommend the following. If you have the time, make...

...open economy like the UK, higher inflation can push down the exchange rate, making foreign debts much harder to repay. But inflation hasn’t taken off, despite unprecedented amounts of money-printing by central banks since the financial crisis. So Modern Money Theory (MMT), which claims that governments (and their social-security and pension funds) can never run out of...

...Open University. References [i] The 2018 information on child life sentence is derived from conversations with Children Rights International Network (CRIN) and an answer to a question asked by a TD in the Irish Dail. Thanks to James Mehigan for sharing this. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessary reflect those of The Open...