{"id":51355,"date":"2020-07-08T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=51355"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:51:09","slug":"modern-monetary-theory-gets-to-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/08\/modern-monetary-theory-gets-to-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern monetary theory gets to Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am often asked if MPs get modern monetary theory. Yesterday they had a chance to do so. Angus MacNeil MP hosted a meeting at which Stephanie Kelton spoke about The Deficit Myth. Forty one elected politicians joined. They came from across the political spectrum and also included representatives from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Plus me. I was given the chance to put some of the ideas in a more UK specific context.<\/p>\n<p>Did they get it? I don't know. But we ran out of time for questions after 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Angus tweeted the event, so I can share it:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngusMacNeilSNP\/status\/1280586935535390721<\/p>\n<p><em>PS: Angus suggested in a response to my tweet of this blog that we do it again. I have accepted the invitation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am often asked if MPs get modern monetary theory. Yesterday they had a chance to do so. Angus MacNeil MP hosted a meeting at<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/08\/modern-monetary-theory-gets-to-westminster\/\"><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":[35,174,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51355","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=51355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}