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A) I couldn’t have imagined when I was introduced to the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault in 1980 that I would actually experience a paradigm shift or an episteme change respectively. However, major change is now occurring in economics due to Modern Monetary Theory...
B) ..(MMT) - initially the work of Warren Mosler, aided by social media - made available by the internet innovation of Tim Berners-Lee. I wonder if it is a true paradigm shift though as it is the replacement of a body of contrived fantasy and knowingly dishonest information...
C) ..supported by a false infrastructure and camouflaging awards by a clear set of empirical observations, rational historical analysis and robust deductions. However, when enough people grasp the previously concealed, truthful observations and insights of MMT and demand the...
D) ..democratic control of the psychological construct - money - and therefore of government spending to protect the environment to ensure our continued survival and to address the normal, evolved physical, emotional and intellectual needs of everyone *everything* and all that...
E) ..is, and can be, known will change and people will wonder how they were tricked and oppressed for so long. There will be a true episteme change enabled by @wbmosler and @timberners_lee! #MMT #LearnMMT #ThinkMMT #GreenNewDeal #JobGuarantee #ChangeIsComing #ForTheManyNotTheFew
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This State has always been synonymous with the interests of the English Norman-Westminster/City of London Regime via the issuance, control and taxation of ‘money’ and the violent separation of the people from the natural means of meeting their needs...
..Shaken slightly between 1945-1979: it regained control with the neoliberal project and the systematic proliferation of conservative metaphors. Its Achilles Heel is the obfuscated and inverted fact of Spend and Tax (by Tax to Spend myth) with its supporting toothless bogeymen...
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