Just Money — MMTed–The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money

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Episode One image: "If the taxpayers fund the government spending and they get the money from businesses who get it from the taxpayers when they buy things, then were do the taxpayers get it from?

Episode One

The Centre of Full Employment and Equity’s MMTed project has recently launched a new manga comic book series entitled “The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money”. A collaboration between Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) pioneer and Economics Professor William Mitchell and Japanese manga artist and designer Mihana (@mihana07: https://twitter.com/mihana07), the series explains the fundamentals of MMT in a straightforward, nontechnical way through the experience of the middle-class Smith family. Professor Mitchell works on the scripts and website code and layout, while Mihana works on the graphics and layouts of cartoon. Mihana’s artistry here comes into its own. Their characters operate on the ground of everyday life with spell-binding animation and esprit. As they interact, they transform arcane economic questions into accessible issues relevant to all of us....

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MMTed – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money