John T. Harvey: MMT, The UK, and Pound Sterling
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To commemorate the anniversary of Trussonomic Mini-budgeting, Christian talks to Professor John T. Harvey about what determines currency prices and more.
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Relevant to this episode:
All our episodes with John T. Harvey: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44371783 John’s Cowboy Economist channel: https://www.youtube.com/@cowboyeconomist8126 John’s Forbes blog: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/?sh=4ec648f3685c “Taxes For Revenue Are Obsolete” by Beardsley Ruml: https://realprogressives.org/taxes-for-revenue-are-obsolete/ “Money Growth Does Not Cause Inflation!” by John T Harvey: https://realprogressives.org/money-growth-does-not-cause-inflation/ Our episodes with Dr Sam Levey about war mobilisation: Episode 32 -How Uncle Sam Paid For World War II (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/30005574, (part 2) https://www.patreon.com/posts/30112818, Episode 76: MMT For Mainstream Economists And Mobilisation Theory (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/43697752, (part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/43886189
For an intro to MMT:
Our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417 Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318
Quick MMT reads:
Warren’s Mosler’s MMT white paper: http://moslereconomics.com/mmt-white-paper/ Steven Hail’s quick MMT explainer: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095 Quick explanation of government debt and deficit: “Some Numbers Are Big. Let Me Help You Get Over It”: https://christreilly.com/2020/02/17/some-numbers-are-big-let-me-help-you-get-over-it/
For a short, non-technical, free ebook explaining MMT, download Warren Mosler’s “7 Deadly Innocent Frauds Of Economic Policy” here: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf
Episodes on monetary operations:
Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824 Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887 Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683 Episode 84 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183 Episode 86 - Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: An Accounting Model Of The UK Exchequer (Part 2): https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929
Episodes on inflation:
Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508 Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678 Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835 Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379 Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558
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