{"id":94682,"date":"2026-08-07T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94682"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:11:36","slug":"infographic-mmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/07\/infographic-mmt\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: MMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MMT-v2-1-550x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MMT-v2-1-550x825.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MMT-v2-1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MMT-v2-1-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MMT-v2-1-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MMT-v2-1.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I should stress that, as with all infographics, the views expressed reflect my work and not necessarily those of others.<\/p>\n<p>The above infographic replaces an earlier version that included a typing mistake, as if to prove I write these things.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to expand this image<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you press CTRL or Command and Plus (+) on your keyboard, your browser should increase the size of your page every time you do this. Press CTRL or Command and the 0 (zero) key together to restore the screen to normal.<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>How to download this image.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you right-click the image, you should be given the option to download it to your computer. So long as you do so without a view to making a profit, you may do so without further permission. Commercial use requires consent. But if you just want to share it, do so with whoever and wherever you want. That is the purpose of these infographics.<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The image library<\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nWe have a library of these images. It is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/downloads\/infographics\">\u00a0available here<\/a>. All downloads are free, but donations help our work.<\/p>\n<p><b>AI use.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I used AI, among other tools, when creating this post, including for spell-checking as I was writing it. I explain how I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/26\/my-use-of-ai\/\">use that technology here<\/a>. I also used a word processor, my brain, coffee, discussion, and about 50 years of experience observing, studying, and writing about these issues. The drawing of the infographic was about the smallest part in all of that, and I had no budget to do that in any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should stress that, as with all infographics, the views expressed reflect my work and not necessarily those of others. The above infographic replaces an<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/07\/infographic-mmt\/\"><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":[204,35,16,240,147,174,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-ethics","category-images","category-inequality","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94682","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=94682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94713,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94682\/revisions\/94713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}