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The Paradox of the Two Knights

6th December 20206th December 2020

By Carlos García Hernández Article originally published in Spanish by RedMMT here Marx argues that any economic system based on private ownership of the means of production is doomed to …

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Weimar Republic Hyperinflation through a Modern Monetary Theory Lens

14th November 2020

Phil Armstrong and Warren Mosler Published online November 2020 Full Article Abstract The hyperinflation in Weimar Germany in 1922-23 has become the poster child of mainstream economists – and especially …

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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) White Paper – UK

24th October 20204th December 2020

The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies Published online 24th October 2020   Full Document   Introduction The purpose of this white paper is to outline the fundamentals of MMT …

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Time For Informed Change. Post Covid-19 Economics

13th August 202013th August 2020

Philip Armstrong Nick Potts Solent University, Southampton, UK   Published online 13th August 2020   Full article   Abstract   In these extraordinary times it might just be that heterodox …

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Maastricht and All That

19th July 202020th July 2020

This article by Wynne Godley was first published in The London Review of Books, Volume 14, no 19, on 8th October 1992. Original article here A lot of people throughout …

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White Paper: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

4th July 202021st January 2025

Warren Mosler Published online 4th July 2020.  Updated 3rd November 2024.   Full Document   Introduction   The purpose of this white paper is to publicly present the fundamentals of …

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Economics and the political and social environment; lessons for MMT advocates

5th April 202011th August 2020

Phil Armstrong, Solent University, Southampton  Sara Holland, Claire Jackson-Prior and Prue Plumridge, Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies   Published online 5th April 2020   Full article   Introduction   …

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Norwood Hanson, Paul Krugman and MMT

29th March 202028th March 2020

Phil Armstrong, University of Southampton Solent and York College  2020    1. Norwood Hanson: Is the sun going around the Earth or the Earth going around the sun?   Norwood …

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The Rise of the Right

20th November 201920th November 2019

GIMMS is pleased to be able to present for our MMT Long Read two chapters of the book “The Rise of the Right – English nationalism and the transformation of …

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The Job Guarantee: Design, Jobs, and Implementation

5th June 20194th June 2019

When people first hear of the idea of the Job Guarantee, they often mistakely liken it to Workfare. Here, in her paper from April 2018, Pavlina R. Tcherneva explains the …

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Patricia @patricianpino ·
2 Dec

A short🧵 on MMT & power: First and foremost MMT is a description & does not contain a prescribed pathway for working class liberation. That was not what MMT as a theory set out to do. However, even a description has political implications & here I set out a couple. >

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
2 Dec

This nonsense is a symptom of living within an essentially barter/full employment model, and having no understanding of monetary systems and balance sheet mechanics, let alone having a view of how people think which is in defiance of reality.

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
2 Dec

Oh, my God.

You are trying my patience beyond its limit

The institutional set-up in the UK clearly involves currency issuance

Read this, in the Journal of Economic Issues - The Self-Financing State: An Institutional Analysis of... the United Kingdom:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00213624.2025.2533726

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Warren B. Mosler @wbmosler ·
1 Dec

@WolfgangWa1642 @pontus_rendahl I 'invented'/developed what's popularized as MMT.
I'd never read Keynes (or any of the others). It all came from my capital markets experience.
Still does.
Keynes never recognized the source of the price level, or had the understanding that tax liabilities cause unemployment.

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Steven Hail @stevenhailaus ·
1 Dec

Incidentally, something similar happened a couple of years later, when I was preparing people for the Chartered Institute of Bankers qualifying exams. A banker said 'great course, but you know it doesn't work like that, don't you?'. Again, I later learned he (and MMT) was right.

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