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It takes two to tango: a reply to our MMT critics

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  • Françoise Drumetz
  • Christian Pfister

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We reply to the critics who contributed the other papers in the same issue of this journal. In the first part of the article, we indicate those remarks addressed to us, which we deem inappropriate to answer. The second part deals with the remarks we find useful to answer, which relate to money, monetary policy and central banking on the one hand, and to fiscal policy on the other hand. The third part recalls remarks we made in our previous publications and that our critics did not wish to consider, whereas this might have helped them in amending their theory. In the fourth part, we conclude that an opportunity to engage in a more fruitful debate may thus have been missed: indeed, it takes two to tango.

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  • Françoise Drumetz & Christian Pfister, 2023. "It takes two to tango: a reply to our MMT critics," European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 20(1), pages 78-89, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:ejeepi:v:20:y:2023:i:1:p78-89
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    Keywords

    Fiscal policy; functional finance; Modern Monetary Theory; monetary policy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E63 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
    • H62 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Deficit; Surplus
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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