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I've always been baffled that modern monetary theory is called a 'theory'. Why don't we just call it 'the way money is'?
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Let's conduct a thought experiment. Imagine that the government is a black box whose internal workings are completely opaque to us. We know that this black box can add money to the economy through spending or remove money from the economy through taxation. But we have no idea why the government is administering fiscal policy (spending and taxing) the way it is. This thought experiment allows us to consider the effects of fiscal policy without becoming distracted by its underlying politics.
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I want to say a few things about Chicago Booth's recent survey questions posed to a set of economists; see here . The survey asked how stro...
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I argue that widely used digital infrastructure like operating systems, compilers and browsers deserve public investment, just like roads, hospitals, and schools.
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