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Good read! Controversy over money is nothing new in US history, since it has been a lively political issue. The arguments are not chiefly about money, although couched in terms of money, economics, and finance, but rather, politics, which involves winners and losers in the policy game. Historically, sound money advocated have been the wealthy, and functional finance people have been ordinary citizens aka "the little people" (h/t Alan Simpson).History News NetworkMMT and Why Historians Need to Reclaim Studying Money Rebecca L. Spang | Professor of History at Indiana University where she directs the Liberal Arts and Management Program, and author of Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2015)
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: economics and politics, MMT, MMT and politics, monetary economics, theory of money, US economic history, US history
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Good read! Controversy over money is nothing new in US history, since it has been a lively political issue. The arguments are not chiefly about money, although couched in terms of money, economics, and finance, but rather, politics, which involves winners and losers in the policy game. Historically, sound money advocated have been the wealthy, and functional finance people have been ordinary citizens aka "the little people" (h/t Alan Simpson).History News NetworkMMT and Why Historians Need to Reclaim Studying Money Rebecca L. Spang | Professor of History at Indiana University where she directs the Liberal Arts and Management Program, and author of Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2015)
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: economics and politics, MMT, MMT and politics, monetary economics, theory of money, US economic history, US history
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Controversy over money is nothing new in US history, since it has been a lively political issue. The arguments are not chiefly about money, although couched in terms of money, economics, and finance, but rather, politics, which involves winners and losers in the policy game. Historically, sound money advocated have been the wealthy, and functional finance people have been ordinary citizens aka "the little people" (h/t Alan Simpson).
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MMT and Why Historians Need to Reclaim Studying Money
Rebecca L. Spang | Professor of History at Indiana University where she directs the Liberal Arts and Management Program, and author of Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2015)