Feb 26, 2021
Welcome to episode 69 of Activist #MMT. Today is part two of my two-part conversation with Dirk Ehnts and Asker Voldsgaard. It’s also part four of a larger four-part series on the relationship between neoclassical or mainstream economics and MMT. Parts two and three were with Sam Levey on the core assumptions of...
Feb 25, 2021
Bonus: 11-year-old Squeaky explains chartalism (the state theory of money)
This is a picture from *around* 2018. (I'm only his father! How would I know these things?!)
Feb 19, 2021
Welcome to episode 68 of Activist #MMT. Today is part two of my conversation with Sam Levey, on the core assumptions of mainstream economics. Sam is a research scholar with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, or UMKC, and a co-founder...
Feb 11, 2021
Welcome to episode 67 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk Sam Levey on the core assumptions of mainstream economics. Sam is a research scholar with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, or UMKC, and a co-founder of the online advocacy group,...
Feb 4, 2021
Welcome to episode 66 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Asker Voldsgaard and Dirk Ehnts on their 2020 response to a paper criticizing Modern Money Theory, or MMT. Dirk is a PhD economist based in Berlin and Asker is a Danish PhD student in innovation and public policy, with a Master’s in international political...