Grace Blakeley has replied to what I wrote about why parts of the left oppose modern monetary theory. In doing so, she has reinforced every
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MMT and the quantity theory of money
Time and again, I am being told at present that money creation — which is what Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) quite correctly says happens every
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MMT and trade: looking beyond the money
There is a stock criticism of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), or modern money as I would rather call it, that goes something like this: MMT
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Reeves’ budget: built on fear?
Rachel Reeves’ Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City
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Is MMT as dangerous as its opponents claim?
“Modern monetary theory (MMT) is dangerous nonsense.” That line, or something very close to it, is now appearing with weary regularity from left-wing economists and
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Modern Monetary Theory, mythology and a glossary update
There was quite a lot of discussion on this blog yesterday about modern monetary theory, so I thought it was worth checking whether the glossary
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Polanski is spooking his opponents
I watched this Channel 4 interview with Zack Polanski and others, when it was put out last night, with real pleasure: Few politicians have ever
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We need capital controls
A commentator called Martin Clews posted this morning on this blog, saying: It is a real worry for me that any independent attempt by the
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Economic questions: the Stephanie Kelton question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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