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"The Modern Monetary Trick" by Michael Roberts | GenZedong/GenZhou Reading Group (Juche 113, Week 42) (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

MMT is just a description of how fiat monetary sovereignty works. It’s not prescriptive, and it’s not comprehensive. For instance, it says nothing about international trade / international balance of payments / currency exchange.

Liberals, being liberals, take this description, expand it in liberal ways, add liberal prescriptions, and then call that mess—which can’t work—MMT as well.

Michael Hudson: The Use and Abuse of MMT

J.T. does a decent job toward the end of his video to explain to the liberal audience how the bourgeoisie will severely limit what they naïvely & over-exuberantly imagine can be done with money printer go brrr: Why The Government Has Infinite Money

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think this is a good summary of my position as well. MMT as a description of how it works is far better than the dominant ideological description of how it works. Reasoning from that to prescriptions must always, inherently, be experimental and that means until MMT theorists get control of monetary policy, all prescriptions are going to be suspect.

Unfortunately, liberals and conservatives alike have no interest in scientific politics.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

The Chinese state has control, and I try a little to see what they do with it, holding MMT in the back of my mind, to see how well it holds up.

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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