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Brad DeLong — Sunday Morning Twitter: Functional Finance/A Better World Is Possible Tweeting…

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This is a good Twitter thread and I suggest reading it. I am sure MMT economists will jump in.Here's an excerpt. ...  Brad DeLong: MMT is Abba Lerner's Functional Finance with bells & whistles & some confusions. Manipulate G to stabilize Y & π, manipulate M to get an i to make debt finance sustainable, and rely on π to tell you if your policies are sustainable... If π↑ need G↓  Suresh Naidu: Clearest exposition of MMT in a tweet. Fight me deficit owls!  ... BDL has thought this through. That means taking MMT seriously.Grasping RealitySunday Morning Twitter: Functional Finance/A Better World Is Possible Tweeting...Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

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This is a good Twitter thread and I suggest reading it. I am sure MMT economists will jump in.

Here's an excerpt.

... 
Brad DeLong: MMT is Abba Lerner's Functional Finance with bells & whistles & some confusions. Manipulate G to stabilize Y & π, manipulate M to get an i to make debt finance sustainable, and rely on π to tell you if your policies are sustainable... If π↑ need G↓
 Suresh Naidu: Clearest exposition of MMT in a tweet. Fight me deficit owls! 
...

BDL has thought this through. That means taking MMT seriously.

Grasping Reality
Sunday Morning Twitter: Functional Finance/A Better World Is Possible Tweeting...Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

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