Jun 27, 2021
Welcome to episode 82 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with 10th-year MMT activist, Richard Tye (Twitter/@widespreadhaze). Richard is the co-author of – and historian for – the 2020 paper called An Accounting Model of the U.K. Exchequer, which is published by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies (or GIMMS)....
Jun 20, 2021
Welcome to episode 81 of Activist #MMT. Today is the end of the world. Wait. Let me try that again. Today is part two of my conversation with sixth-year MMT activist Andrew Chirgwin. It's a dark episode. Just letting you know. Today Andrew and I continue our conversation about how neoclassical economists don't "stay...
Jun 14, 2021
Welcome to episode 80 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with sixth-year MMT activist Andrew Chirgwin. Andrew graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry and Pure Mathematics, and a masters in secondary teaching. Andrew's introduction to Modern Money Theory, or MMT, was in 2015 when...
Jun 6, 2021
Welcome to episode 79 of Activist #MMT. Today is part two of my two-part conversation with first-year MMT activist Katrina Pilver. It's about how she discovered the importance of economics and then MMT, and her unusually-intensive and -ambitious journey to learn MMT more deeply. After the end of our interview you will...
Jun 5, 2021
An extended snippet from part one of my interview with first-year MMT activist Katrina Pilver, where we gush about rapper Killer Mike. (It starts somewhere at around the 53 minute mark.) It includes the full audio of a speech inspired by James Baldwin, which used by the 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign in a...