Attention
How often do people look up MMT and its ideas?
3,915
Wikipedia article views, week of 19 Oct
down 9% on the week before; down 10% on the 4-week average
279 views per 1,000 views of comparable economics articles
MMT Pulse
Week of 19 Oct to 25 Oct 2026How Modern Monetary Theory, and the ideas it rests on, are travelling in UK public life. We count frames as well as mentions: an item counts when it names MMT, when it uses an MMT-consistent idea without the label, or when it uses an opposing frame such as "taxpayers' money" or a "fiscal black hole". How this is measured.
Headline: framing in UK news and Parliament, last 4 weeks
168 opposing-frame mentions against 17 mentions of MMT or MMT-consistent ideas.
Provisional These are keyword matches, not judgements. Framing figures appear once our classifier's accuracy has been measured against hand-labelled items and published on the methodology page.
Media framing
How do UK news outlets frame public money?
48
UK news items, week of 19 Oct
up 60% on the week before; up 20% on the 4-week average
61 items per 1,000 Guardian politics, business and UK news articles
Political uptake
How do MPs and peers talk about public money?
11
speeches in Parliament, week of 19 Oct
down 39% on the week before; up 144% on the 4-week average
3.00 speeches per 1,000 spoken contributions in Parliament
Academic uptake
Is MMT being cited and studied?
0
scholarly works, week of 19 Oct
down 100% on the week before; down 100% on the 4-week average
1.7 a week on average over the previous 12 weeks
Social conversation
Are people talking about it online?
596
posts and videos, week of 19 Oct
up 8% on the week before; up 15% on the 4-week average
466.6 a week on average over the previous 12 weeks
Movement health
How active is the movement?
2
public events held, week of 19 Oct
up 100% on the week before; up 300% on the 4-week average
0.3 a week on average over the previous 12 weeks
Recent movement activity
- 30 Sep 2026 ANZSEE Biennial Conference · events.humanitix.com
- 17 Oct Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement · degrowth.info
- 20 Oct Global Donut Days 2026 · Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL)
- 21 Oct Degrowth and the Politics of Space · degrowthpsc.com
Reading these figures
The dashboard shows what is said and how often. It shows correlation, not causation: a rise after a campaign does not prove the campaign caused it. Each figure names its source and date range; see the methodology for every source's limits. New to the ideas? Start with the Knowledge Graph.
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