{"id":44158,"date":"2019-01-31T07:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T07:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=44158"},"modified":"2019-01-31T07:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T07:10:34","slug":"jonathan-portes-prospect-modern-monetary-theory-and-the-right-to-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/31\/jonathan-portes-prospect-modern-monetary-theory-and-the-right-to-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Portes, Prospect, modern monetary theory and the right to reply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am aware that Jonathan Portes had a rather bizarre, straw-man based, attack on modern monetary theory published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/economics-and-finance\/nonsense-economics-the-rise-of-modern-monetary-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Prospect<\/a> yesterday. In this he did, amongst other unsubstantiated claims, suggest that I am 'the UK\u2019s most prominent proponent', which must be pleasing Bill Mitchell no end.<\/p>\n<p>I will be asking Prospect for a right to reply and will wait to hear before drafting my response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am aware that Jonathan Portes had a rather bizarre, straw-man based, attack on modern monetary theory published in Prospect yesterday. In this he did,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/01\/31\/jonathan-portes-prospect-modern-monetary-theory-and-the-right-to-reply\/\"><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":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-monetary-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44158","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=44158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}