Modern Money Theory

An explanation

by Richard Murphy (publ. 1 Apr 2023) Buy

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Booklet contents

  • Modern monetary theory and the background to this explanation
  • MMT as a theory
  • MMT’s economic model
  • MMT, money and the economy
  • The theory – a summary
  • MMT – the implications
  • A. The command of resources
  • B. Taxation
  • C. Borrowing, the national debt and government provided safe deposit facilities.
  • D. Book balancing
  • E. Governments and money markets
  • F. Quantitative easing
  • G. Interest on the ‘national debt’
  • H. The control of inflation
  • I. Full employment
  • Richard Murphy biography
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