Economist Stephanie Kelton has made a name for herself by insisting that deficits don’t matter. In an interview with Jacobin, she argues that we're seeing a paradigm shift away from free-market dogmas and austerity.Jacobin
Stephanie Kelton Thinks the Conventional Wisdom Is Changing
Lukas Scholle interviews Stephanie Kelton, professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University,
It’s not changing…
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ReplyDeleteWhat world is she living in? Daily outrage over the "debt" and spending.
ReplyDeleteMaybe slow, but there are signs of change. McClatchy (in the Sacramento Bee) just posted its first-ever editorial that didn't scold the public about national debt. This was a re-publication of a Bloomberg editorial--another deficit scolding organization--and the Bee omitted Stephanie Kelton's name that appears in the original, but still...signs of progress.
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