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The Job Guarantee and the MMT Core Series

Submitted by letsgetitdone on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 6:00pm

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This is an introduction to a series of 16 posts I began in reply to a number of posts by John Carney at the CNBC blog and Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism, and discussions replying to them. The posts by Carney and Roche criticized the MMT Job Guarantee (JG) proposal. Read below the fold...

The Job Guarantee and the MMT Core: Part Sixteen, Conclusion

Submitted by letsgetitdone on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 6:30pm

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This is the concluding post in this Job Guarantee and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) series. Read below the fold...

The Job Guarantee and the MMT Core: Part Fourteen, MMT Is A Holistic Knowledge Claim Network

Submitted by letsgetitdone on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 9:59pm

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The recent extensive blogosphere discussion on the JG and the MMT core began with a post by John Carney that stated his opposition to the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Job Guarantee proposal and claimed it either wasn't an essential component of MMT, or that if it was, then MMT was wrong. Cullen Roche, a well-known popularizer of MMT at his Pragmatic Capitalism blog then asserted: Read below the fold...