Monday, June 14, 2021

Ndongo Samba Sylla — Neoliberalism’s Colonial Origins

Neoliberal political economy as the antithesis of MMT.

7 comments:

Matt Franko said...

MMT is antithesis to the neoliberal stuff … that was there first…

Goes in order: Thesis THEN antithesis…

Matt Franko said...

Hey maybe the neoliberals are going to start to complain that “ the MMT people haven’t read the neoliberal literature!”

Tom Hickey said...

Hey maybe the neoliberals are going to start to complain that “ the MMT people haven’t read the neoliberal literature!”

And they would be wrong.

It's called understanding the opponent. You know, dialectics.

Matt Franko said...

“What is neoliberalism?” Would be as big a rabbit hole waste of time as “what is money?”….

Peter Pan said...

It is a waste of time to understand how your opponent rationalizes their position.

As for 'neoliberal' macroeconomics, I'm guessing the literature is rather scant.

Matt Franko said...

They are trained to dogmatically defend it not rationalize it.... if you are believing the antithesis then you might think they are rationalizing it..,

Matt Franko said...

Right now all you hear is the monetarist thesis over and over and over.... “inflation!” being caused by the Fed “printing money!”

It’s all you hear..,, every day after day.... it is 99% consensus view....