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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Kevin Drum's Take on MMT

Kevin Drum, posting in Mother Jones, also threw his hat into the ring of discussion about Dylan Matthews's post< more »

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WaPo Covers MMT, But Does Its Usual Bad Job: Part Four, The Victory

This post concludes my critical evaluation of Dylan Matthews's, post published on Ezra Klein's blog called “You know the deficit hawks. more »

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WaPo Covers MMT, But Does Usual Bad Job: Pt 3, Banking, & “Hyperinflation"

This post continues my critical evaluation of Dylan Matthews's, post published on Ezra Klein's blog called “You know the deficit hawks. more »

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WaPo Covers MMT, But Does Its Usual Bad Job: Pt One, Basics and Solvency

It was very welcome to see The Washington Post cover MMT with a reasonably favorable post by Dylan Matthews, published on Ezra Klein's blog called “You know the deficit hawks. more »

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The Job Guarantee and the MMT Core Series: An Introduction

This is an introduction to a series of 16 posts I wrote in reply to a number of posts by John Carney at the CNBC blog and Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism, and comments replying to them. The posts by Carney and Roche criticized the MMT Job Guarantee (JG) proposal. more »

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The Job Guarantee and the MMT Core: Part Sixteen, Conclusion

This is the concluding post in this Job Guarantee and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) series. more »

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The JG and the MMT Core: Part 15, Components of MMT

In this post I'll list the primary components of the MMT Knowledge Claim Network (KCN) classified under the major categories: the Social/Value Gaps; the Knowledge Gaps (Problems); the Descriptive Components (including Solutions); the more »

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The JG and the MMT Core: Part 14, MMT Is A Holistic Knowledge Network

The recent extensive blogosphere discussion on the JG and the MMT core began with a post by John Carney that stated his opposition to the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Job Guarantee proposal and claimed it eithe more »

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The Job Guarantee and the MMT Core: Part 13, John Carney 's "Reply"

In a piece called “More Questions About the Job Guarantee,” John Carney provides some links to the continuing debate on the Job Guarantee (JG). more »

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The Job Guarantee and the MMT Core: Part Twelve, Theory and Fact

Cullen Roche continued his extensive and multi-faceted critique of the Job Guarantee policy and the Modern Monetary Theory approach to economics with a piece attempting to distinguish “theory” and “fact.” His piece is based on the common sense idea that there's a distinction be more »

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