New Economic Perspectives Archive

New Economic Perspectives Collection

A growing archive of posts from all your favorite MMT greats, republished with permission from the original New Economic Perspectives blog.

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CBO—Still Out of Paradigm after All These Years

CBO—Still Out of Paradigm after All These Years

Gold-standard thinking is inapplicable to a sovereign, currency-issuing government operating under flexible exchange rates.

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Modern Money Theory: The Basics

Modern Money Theory: The Basics

Here we go with the basics of MMT.

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Replacing the Budget Constraint with an Inflation Constraint

Replacing the Budget Constraint with an Inflation Constraint

Let’s stop pretending that replacing a budget constraint with an inflation constraint is so hard.

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MMT and External Constraints

MMT and External Constraints

To Fix or To Float, that is the question.

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The Oppressive Free Lunch

The Oppressive Free Lunch

If progressives would just make the effort to inform themselves how a modern, sovereign fiat…

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Answers from the MMTers

Answers from the MMTers

Jared Bernstein, longtime economic advisor to Joe Biden asked the MMT academics some questions. They…

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