Category: News & Commentary

Commentary & Controversy

Doubtless I’ve missed more than a few, but the growth in commentary from MMT literate sources has grown significantly over the past decade. Consider: for 2001 through 2016, I’ve found 38 articles published in a range of media. Compare that to 158 published, sometimes with updates, between 2017 and 2020. You’ll find them on two pages: Debates and Controversies and News & Commentary

I added only four in 2021, leading me to wonder if I’m slacking off. Suggestions most welcome, here or via my Twitter feed.

Added today to Debates and Controversies: Paul Krugman Has Changed His Tune About Our “Long Run Budget Problem”
— Nathan Tankus (@NathanTankus) Crisis Notes April 15, 2021

Larry Summers versus Dodd Frank
— Nathan Tankus (@NathanTankus) Naked Capitalism Sept 11, 2013 (added 4/26)

Cory Doctorow Tweets, Talks & Writes About MMT

I’m always playing catch-up. In this case, the fun started when I more or less stumbled on Cory Doctorow wrote a good explainer about modern monetary theory from Mark Frauenfelder (@Frauenfelder) writing for BoingBoing on May 15, 2020. I added it to the News and Commentary page and then, because I’ve been reading and adding Doctorow to this site for some time, I thought to gather them all in one place and fill in with pieces I’d missed. Here then, the results of an evening browse. What I found is below the tweets, with links to the pages where they are included on this site.

While he’s been thinking and writing about MMT for several years now, on June 10, 2020, Doctorow did such a fine job of summarizing the main points on Twitter, that I wanted to capture them.
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