I expect that I will have pieces later discussing the contents of the book in detail.) (Note: I am mainly focusing on discussing the audience for this book, and not attempting to do a formal review. Other than the old MMT/post-Keynesian internecine conflicts, almost no citations are made of any texts written by academic MMTers. There has been fairly intense criticism of MMT in traditional and social media as well as financial market commentary for over a year now, and my estimate that over 90% of those critiques were based on beliefs that were largely made up, and quite often the opposite of the MMT view. This is welcome, as by putting MMT on the map, we might see something resembling a debate around it. So far, the book has sold well, and generated discussion and reviews. The book provides a clean introduction to MMT, and how it fits in with fiscal policy and the political process. Stephanie Kelton's the Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy has been a long-awaited book from a Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) proponent that was the Chief Economist for the Democratic Party on the Senate Budget Committee.
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