{"id":43949,"date":"2019-01-08T08:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T08:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43949"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T12:10:25","slug":"mmt-forthcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/08\/mmt-forthcoming\/","title":{"rendered":"MMT, forthcoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This feels like the morning when MMT needs to be spoken about.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators on the blog are still asking what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators in the media are far from asking anything like the right questions, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jan\/07\/theresa-may-nhs-funding-cross-party-complicity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rafael Behr in The Guardian<\/a> is to be taken as an example of them suggesting the household analogy is still,very much alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MollyMEP\/status\/1082530500701552640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Molly Scott Cato tweeted<\/a> the Green Party\u2019s support for Positive Money\u2019s views on banks, which are both technically wrong and not MMT, which is unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>That there is still work to do is still obvious.<\/p>\n<p>I could at this point refer to two blogs I have written. One is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/09\/modern-monetary-theory-in-a-nutshell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMT in a nutshell<\/a>. The other is on stripping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/11\/09\/modern-monetary-theorists-need-to-take-a-long-and-hard-look-at-how-they-are-campaigning-if-their-case-is-to-be-won\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMT back to its core<\/a>. But maybe they have not really worked, as yet.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to answer all such points right now, but there are trains to catch, meetings to go to and work that demands attention.<\/p>\n<p>What I have begun work on is an MMT Q&amp;A. I would rather not. But my searching can\u2019t produce anything I want, so I will work on it. I'll get it out as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feels like the morning when MMT needs to be spoken about. Commentators on the blog are still asking what it is. Commentators in the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/08\/mmt-forthcoming\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-modern-monetary-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}