Chris Cook — Post-Modern Fiscal Theory

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Guest post: Post-Modern Fiscal Theory
Chris Cook
(h/t Frederico Carvalho at FB)

Chris Cook on the Post-Modern Fiscal Theory

The following is a guest post from Chris Cook, a senior research fellow at theInstitute for Security and Resilience Studies at University College London. His work is focused on a new generation of networked markets – which will, in Chris’s view, necessarily be dis-intermediated, open, decentralised and, therefore, resilient.

Following the recent upsurge in interest in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) I was rash enough to make the comment that the central insight of MMT – that modern ‘fiat’ money is a credit instrument ultimately based upon the government’s power to tax – is muddied by disputes as to what the proper basis for taxation actually is, or indeed, whether there should be any taxation at all.FT Alphaville invited me to contribute a post on the ‘Modern Fiscal Theory’ I suggested. But I decided to go further and document my view that in a world of direct connections a Treasury is no more necessary as a credit intermediary than is a Bank.

Post-Modern Fiscal Theory looks to the networked, de-centralised and dis-intermediated economy emerging rapidly from the post October 2008 wreckage.

Read it at The Financial Times | FT Alphaville

Guest post: Post-Modern Fiscal Theory

by Chris Cook

(h/t Kevin Fathi via mail)

Important. Chris Cook is a big thinker.