Aug 31, 2022
Part 4: Patricia and Christian continue their conversation about Stephanie Kelton’s best-seller The Deficit Myth. In this conversation: the government’s red ink is our black ink, and how the notion that government bond issuance “crowds out” private sector investment is inapplicable to a floating exchange rate currency.
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Quick MMT reads:
Warren’s Mosler’s MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/
Steven Hail’s quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095
On government debt: “Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It”: https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/
Other things that came up in this conversation:
Bill Mitchell on Britain’s 1976 IMF loan: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=33907
Episode 49 - Phil Armstrong: Where Does Money Come From? (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/36619334
Episode 50 - Phil Armstrong: Where Does Money Come From? (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/36846931
Episode 110 - L. Randall Wray: Are We Living In An MMT World?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54750022
Episodes on monetary operations:
Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824
Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887
Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683
Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183
Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929
Episodes on inflation:
Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508
Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678
Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835
Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379
Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558
Job Guarantee episodes:
Episode 4 - Fadhel Kaboub: What is the Job Guarantee?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742701
Episode 47 - Pavlina Tcherneva: Building Resilience - The Case For A Job Guarantee: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36034543
Links to MMT scholarship by New Economic Perspectives: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/mmt-scholarship
MMT Academic Resources - compiled by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2251544/mmt_academic_resources_-_compiled_by_the_gower_initiative_for_modern_money_studies
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Economics of Sustainability graduate courses zoom Q&A sessions (16th / 17th August, 25th August, 2nd / 3rd September): https://modernmoneylab.org.au/events/
Updates about Professor Bill Mitchell’s MMT 101 course will be posted here (we think!) - due to restart mid-September 2022: http://www.mmted.org/#
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