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(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All ≠ MMT

By Joe Firestone
April 11, 2012

In my last post, I discussed the first part of Beowulf's post entitled: “(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All = MMT,” and also some dialogues between Jamie Galbraith and both TomThumb and Beowulf related to the MMT Job Guarantee at more »

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Dialogues with Jamie Galbraith and the MMT Job Guarantee

By Joe Firestone
April 10, 2012

A few days ago my friend Beowulf decided to exercise his wry sense of humor with this title of a post he offered for our consideration: “(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All = MMT.” Beo then goes on to talk about some details of a comment exchange with Jamie Galbraith at more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Dean Baker's Second Try On MMT (3)

By Joe Firestone
March 1, 2012

This is the third and last installment of a critical review of Dean Baker's second reaction to the debate kicked off by the more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Dean Baker's Second Try On MMT (2)

By Joe Firestone
February 29, 2012

This is the second installment of a critical review of Dean Baker's second reaction to the debate kicked off by the more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Dean Baker's Second Try On MMT (1)

By Joe Firestone
February 29, 2012

Dean Baker added to his previous discussion on MMT in a second post in reply to some of the comments on his first one. more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Kevin Drum's Take on MMT

By Joe Firestone
February 25, 2012

Kevin Drum, posting in Mother Jones, also threw his hat into the ring of discussion about Dylan Matthews's post< more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Dean Baker Weighs In on MMT

By Joe Firestone
February 24, 2012

Dean Baker weighed in on MMT in the aftermath of Dylan Matthews's, MMT post on Ezra Kle more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Jared Bernstein's Cool Up To a Point

By Joe Firestone
February 24, 2012

After stating his general approval for Dylan Matthews's, MMT post on Ezra Klein's blog, and his agreement with MMT on the issue of solvency, a big point that MMT's been trying to get across to the mainstream for years, more »

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One + One = Two (Not Too Wonkish)

By Joe Firestone
February 16, 2012

After reading one of my rants about the stupidity of policies aiming at a balanced budget, somebody in my Facebook environment, commented by saying: “1 + 1 = 2.” Here's my answer.

Yes, 1+1 = 2. more »

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Alternative Fiscal Policies: Why the Job Guarantee is Superior (Wonkish)

By Joe Firestone
February 13, 2012

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Pavlina Tcherneva

A few weeks ago I called for a technocratic debate on the merits of the JG, relative to other fiscal policies. A number of bloggers took the charge but the debate was not immune to ideological biases, which proved the starting point of my piece that one cannot separate fact from theory or ideology (and by ideology I do not mean the derogatory use of the word, but that which signifies ‘ontology’ or a ‘world view’). What I didn’t expect is for friends and sympathizers to resurrect one particularly invidious charge we have long heard from MMT deniers, namely that MMT is pushing authoritarian policies.

Oh, boy. How did we even get here? I thought this was going to be a technocratic debate. more »

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