Search Results for: "Modern Monetary Theory"
The Limits of CGE Modelling
Economic modelling is a central element of economic and policy debate in Australia. Yet the assumptions that underpin the most commonly used macroeconomic models are rarely discussed even though they…
Finding the Money with Stephanie Kelton
…US Senate Budget Committee, for this webinar about Modern Monetary Theory and her new film Finding the Money. The film follows Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or…
The Deficit Myth
…She is a leading expert on Modern Monetary Theory and served as chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff) in 2015 and as a senior economic adviser…
Fear of spending
…from and what we can do with it. Who’d have thought? After 25 years of academic debate, so called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has burst free from its ivory-tower confines…
Tolerate Unemployment, but Blame the Unemployed
In a comprehensive critique of unemployment and monetary policy in Australia, Senior Research Fellow David Richardson shows there is no stable statistical basis for the assumption that inflation will accelerate…
Tax debate is yet to catch up with new politics of deficit
…cuts are, by definition, permanent. One possible reason for this silence is the emergence of modern monetary theory. The net result is an enfeebled state with reduced capacity to solve…
Leading Thinkers | Between the Lines
…its 30-year anniversary in 2024. Watch His Excellency Anote Tong’s address at the Melbourne Town Hall A Journey Through Modern Monetary Theory with Stephanie Kelton “The starting point with MMT…
Joseph Stiglitz: The Role of Government in the Modern Economy
…the author of several books including: Econobabble, Curing Affluenza, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next? and Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy…
Drug Law Reform: Beyond Prohibition
Prohibition has failed to significantly reduce illicit drug markets and has caused greater harm to society than it has saved. The evidence shows that a treatment-orientated approach to drug issues…
Under the Employer's Eye: Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance in Australian Workplaces
…short periods), nor away from it. Part I of this report begins by describing the main forms of modern electronic monitoring and surveillance (EMS) that have placed more Australian workers…