MMT Is A Social Agenda – Not A Financial Solution

MMT IS A SOCIAL AGENDA

The subtitle of Stephanie Kelton’s book, The Deficit Myth, is “Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy”. The material in her book supports and encourages that theme and what it implies.

It isn’t that Ms. Kelton and others have not explained carefully how MMT can presumably work, both financially and economically; they have. The financial details have been enumerated and dissected adequately. However, the justification for implementation of MMT appears to be based on expectations of grander social programs, and how to pay for them.

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MMT – Nothing New Here

MMT – NOTHING NEW 

Overall, and after reading more extensively about it, including arguments both pro and con, I still do not see what is new or ‘modern’ about MMT. Whether it is, or is not, doesn’t matter. What matters is that it is getting a seemingly inordinate amount of attention and is a subject worthy of comment.

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