What's Wrong With Modern Money Theory (MMT): A Critical Primer
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Keywords
Modern money theory (MMT); budget deficits; job guarantee program;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
- E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
- E40 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - General
- E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
- E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HME-2019-06-24 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2019-06-24 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2019-06-24 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PAY-2019-06-24 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
- NEP-PKE-2019-06-24 (Post Keynesian Economics)
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