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“The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton: A Review

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2020-07-02
On: July 2, 2020

*** If there is a “deficit myth”, Stephanie Kelton is bent on exposing it. There is a puritanical shame that accompanies talk of a country’s deficit, the putrid stench of moral decay wafts through the air, driving governments to violent self-lacerations by way of swingeing spending cuts. Kelton’s book, The Deficit Myth, is a work of popular economics whose mission is to introduce the public to modern monetary theory (MMT) and lift the shame around the deficit myth through a paradigm shift in the way the public thinks about it, while offering up a promise of a Prometheus unbound: a government whose fiscal space andRead More →

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