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Politics rules.This leaves the left with two options: either accept fiscal orthodoxy and try to win elections on the argument that the other side is being hypocritical, or hop into the Modern Monetary Theory camp and argue that the only real constraint is the tolerance of inflation. Of course, the establishment centre-left is generally going with the first option, and is discovering that electorates do not really care that much about hypocrisy.Bond Economics"Paying For Two Wars"Brian Romanchuk
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Politics rules.This leaves the left with two options: either accept fiscal orthodoxy and try to win elections on the argument that the other side is being hypocritical, or hop into the Modern Monetary Theory camp and argue that the only real constraint is the tolerance of inflation. Of course, the establishment centre-left is generally going with the first option, and is discovering that electorates do not really care that much about hypocrisy.Bond Economics"Paying For Two Wars"Brian Romanchuk
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Mike Norman considers the following as important:
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Politics rules.
This leaves the left with two options: either accept fiscal orthodoxy and try to win elections on the argument that the other side is being hypocritical, or hop into the Modern Monetary Theory camp and argue that the only real constraint is the tolerance of inflation. Of course, the establishment centre-left is generally going with the first option, and is discovering that electorates do not really care that much about hypocrisy.Bond Economics
"Paying For Two Wars"
Brian Romanchuk