Debt, Deficits, and Modern Monetary Theory — Interview with Bill Mitchell

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Debt, Deficits, and Modern Monetary Theory
Interview with Bill Mitchell

By Winston Gee | October 16, 2011

Particular budget outcomes should never be a policy target. What the government should be targeting is real goals, by which I mean a sustainable growth rate buoyed by full employment.....

From a macroeconomic point of view, the spending and tax decisions of government should be such that total spending in the economy is sufficient to produce the level of real output at which firms will employ the available labor force. This is the goal, and the particular budget outcomes must serve this goal. 

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