New Economic Perspectives

Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 33.

Applying a household “budget constraint” to government is obviously inappropriate—households are users of the currency, while government is the issuer. How could economics have become so confused?

Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 32.

Milton Friedman was a conservative economist and a vocal critic of “big government” and of Keynesian economics. Yet, in 1948 he made a proposal that was almost identical to Lerner’s functional finance views.

Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 31.

This week we begin a new topic: functional finance. Today we will lay out Abba Lerner’s approach to policy.

Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 30.

As an accurate description, this part of MMT should be accepted by anyone, no matter what their theoretical, political, or ideological persuasion.

There was never a strong argument for adopting the Euro, and the weaknesses have been exposed. Currency union without fiscal union was a mistake.

Comments and responses on the Modern Money Primer Part 28.