David F. Ruccio — MMT goes to Washington

I’ve written a bit about Modern Monetary Theory over the years, and it’s been increasingly finding its way into my teaching and public talks (on U.S. budget deficits, the crisis in Greece, and other topics). Here’s a link to a good, short primer by Dylan Matthews.

I still don’t know who Sanders’s economic advisers are. But his focus on class issues complemented by some Modern Monetary Theory is not a bad start for fundamentally reorienting economic thinking in the United States.

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David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame