Welcome to episode 130 of Activist #MMT. Today's the final part of a six-part series with @John_T_Harvey. It's also the first guest-hosted (main) episode of Activist #MMT, with Jonathan Wilson (@deficitowl24601). Here's a brief highlight, with thanks to @headlinervideo.👇
👆Today in part six, they focus on some of the core assumptions and ideology of mainstream economists. They also discuss how some assume inflation to always be caused by too much demand and too high wages, despite clear empirical evidence that it's caused by something else.👇
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👆The Levy Economics Institute (@LevyEcon) has posted 32 videos of lectures and panels from June's 2022 Summer Session. It includes John's talk (as I discussed with him in parts 1-3) and features the backs of my and @PatriciaNPino's heads.👇 youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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How about we fix both the symptom AND the disease?
1. Cancel all student debt. 2. Make future student debt an impossibility by making all education free (for all citizens, student or not)
Free education will also prevent price gouging by universities, since something that has no price can’t have its prices raised. The national government would also be a monopsony, so they could easily stand up to bad behavior by universities.
Free education will also take control of education policy and funding from rich property tax payers (K-12), and away from rich donors (university). This would be a massive empowerment of the 99%.
Theory is about determining the possibilities. Only then can you consider political and human realities. #MMT's descriptive element is purely the former.
WHY exactly, is "inflation out of control" in medical costs? Because pharmeceutical companies are completely unregulated and can price gouge.
Because workers in healthcare (and in general) have no power to negotiate better wages and working conditions, which only further increases the power of corporations to price gouge, and further decreases the purchasing power of those workers.
First, #MMT largely originated from the ideas of trader and former bank owner, Warren Mosler (@wbmodler). He made a killing when *he* informed officials in the Italian government that voluntary default was an impossibility.
“…when reading their criticism I’m often left w the impression that they haven't actually bothered reading anything on the subject of their critique. Rather, they seem to prefer to knock down straw men…”
…it logically can’t "borrow" in the personal sense of that term. So what is it?
An overview:
1. Chinese companies sell us stuff. 2. US customers pay in dollars. 3. The dollars are translated to bank reserves at the Fed, with the Chinese company marked as the owner.
Welcome to episode 128 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Dirk Ehnts (@DEhnts), about his personal journey to MMT, which happened only after obtaining a PhD in mainstream economics. Here's a brief highlight, with thanks to @headlinervideo.👇
Welcome to episode 120 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with @StevenHailAus, about the new and unprecedented graduate program in economics of sustainability, mixing #MMT and ecological economics.
"Rather than accept it, we decided to do something about it."👇
👆The program, which starts in September 2022, will be run by @TorrensUni-versity, is backed by @modernmoneylab, and is primarily developed by Steven, and Australia's leading ecological economist, Phil Lawn.
👆Today in part one, Steven talks about how the program came to be, the potential resistance expected from the classical economics departments, and the basics of ecological economics.👇