Mathew Forstater

Mathew Forstater is Professor of Economics at UMKC, and research director of the GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@GISP_Tweets and @umkcecon are united in their commitment to #decolonisation of economics, the world system and, as @FadhelKaboub and
@NgugiWaThiongo_ have put it, “decolonization of the mind.” Also, as Fadhel teaches, “decolonize to decarbonize.”

Follow Fadhel: @FadhelKaboub

[Ruchira @RuchiraSen67]

Over a hundred registrations for this one! (And there I was thinking it would just be a chat with my old professor.)

To be fair, Mat is one of the foremost and most creative thinkers on economic thought. So I shouldn’t be surprised :)

[Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب @FadhelKaboub]

Fadhel Kaboub delivers a Green Lecture keynote speech at HBS-Tunisia: "Breaking the Cycle of Dependency:Economic Sovereignty and Just Transitions in the Global South" (May 13, 2026). https://t.co/KGUpWvcaBq

[Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب @FadhelKaboub]

Here is a second Financial Times letter from one of my Monetary Theory students at Denison University, Abzal Iskakov (class of 2026): https://t.co/hPKoTTW8a2

Letter: ECB’s stance on price stability requires action on rates now
From Abzal Iskakov, Astana, Kazakhstan

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@GrkStav The Gas Prices Relief Act of 2026?

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@GrkStav Yes apparently a bipartisan federal gasoline tax holiday has been put forward that would go until Oct 1 2026?

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

Prof Hossein is fighting against injustice after facing discrimination at York University. Her legal battle is crucial for accountability and change. Please consider donating or sharing to support her fight for justice. https://t.co/ff9UWYZZLP

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

https://t.co/SHpzPVE6xD

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

Sez it all baby

[Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب @FadhelKaboub]

https://t.co/vFghlVbbUr Today is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The UN General Assembly will vote on a resolution designating the transatlantic African slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity"

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@BrankoMilan During Apartheid the U.S. called their policy “constructive engagement.” The singer Paul Simon broke the boycott and went to South Africa, recorded and performed there while Nelson Mandela was in prison on Robben Island.

[Espen Barth Eide @EspenBarthEide]

Together with 18 countries, Norway condemns in the strongest terms a series of recent Israeli decisions that introduce sweeping extensions to unlawful Israeli control over the West Bank. https://t.co/qqIYsxxvkm

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@zapradon @wbmosler @gkittygkitty Not only youth, everyone, seniors.

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@zapradon @wbmosler @gkittygkitty Does that even have to happen? Certainly a central authority can issue a liability & demand the liability be settled in such-and-such. They can also pay unemployed youth such-and-such to do ‘green jobs’ (that don’t pollute & dont use natural resources: library, planting trees).

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@zapradon @wbmosler @gkittygkitty Any local government could easily do it, regional, city council, etc.

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@GrkStav No one is surprised. Sorry. Bad economist, bad person.

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

*Poor Samuelson & Arrow*

Gail (my lovely partner of 40+ years): “Larry Summers is in the Einstein files.”
Me: “For eating too many bagels or trying to defy the laws of gravity?”
Gail: “Why does that name sound familiar?”
Me: (deeeep inhale) 1/n

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@GrkStav @wbmosler Summers accused @CornelWest of easy grading, and perhaps driving him from Harvard to Princeton? He said women were not as good at math and science as men?

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@GrkStav Here’s the anecdote from @wbmosler 7 Innocent Frauds speakers for itself

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@GrkStav @wbmosler *speaks*

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

@weeklybecky76 @RTRSPodcast That Harvard is way overrated? 😂 I guess it depends on your field. But yes it’s really not that crazy. You should probably be proud of both, but a lot more people have been Harvard fellows than have written for RTRS. 😂

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

How he kept getting appointed to important academic, government & other positions, like President of Harvard, Assistant Treasury Secretary, Secretary of the Treasury, & boards of top tech companies even after many other additional embarrassing, bigoted comments, is astounding.

[Mathew Forstater @mattybram]

Anyway, I cited Larry Summers in my 1996 doctoral dissertation, Political Economics and Instrumental Analysis, his infamous World Bank Memo on environmental policy.

https://t.co/aISPd2x2wd