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Bill's 4 part series on Japan.Bill Mitchell – billy blogQ&A Japan style – Part 1Q&A Japan style – Part 2Q&A Japan style – Part 3Some reflections on my time in Japan while I am too busy to writeQ&A Japan style – Part 4 Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

This is the first part of a three-part series this week, where I provide some guidance on some key questions about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) that various parties in Japan have raised with me. The public discussion about MMT in Japan is relatively advanced (compared to elsewhere). Questions are asked about it and answered in the Japanese Diet (Parliament) and senior economics officials in the central bank and government make comments about it. And political activists across the political...