After two long and possibly turgid posts analysing Modern Monetary Theory, in this third post, I’m going to look at the practicalities – in other words, what are the policy proposals that MMTers put forward for the government to do in order to get more jobs at better wages and without provoking inflation? Since the […]
a través de MMT 3 – a backstop to capitalism — Michael Roberts Blog
Modern monetary theory (MMT) has become flavour of the time among many leftist economic views in recent years. The new left-wing Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is apparently a supporter; and a leading MMT exponent recently discussed the theory and its policy implications with UK Labour’s left-wing economics and finance leader, John McDonnell. MMT has some traction […]
a través de Modern monetary theory – part 1: Chartalism and Marx — Michael Roberts Blog
Well, there has not been a year starting like this for a long time. The US government is in disarray. The President of the Unites States starts the second half of his four-year term having lost his majority in the lower house of Congress to the Democrats in a heavy polling defeat last November. He starts […]
a través de Forecast for 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
It’s just 100 days to go before the UK officially leaves the European Union and the political shenanigans continue over whether UK Prime Minister Theresa May can get her proposed ‘transition deal’ with the European Union through parliament before 29 March 2019. The May deal is not acceptable to the bulk of her own Conservative […]
a través de Brexit: 100 days and after — Michael Roberts Blog
La parte 2 de la nota, aquí Crisis fiscal crónica y deuda pública La debilidad de la acumulación capitalista también sería la causa última del creciente endeudamiento del Estado, y de la crisis fiscal crónica. En este respecto, la primera cuestión a subrayar es la imposibilidad de sostener indefinidamente la demanda mediante gasto fiscal, como […]
a través de La crisis argentina, una visión de largo plazo (3) — Rolando Astarita [Blog]
Semblanza de la vida y obra del filósofo marxista hispano-mexicano Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, elaborada por la Lic. Julia Peñaloza, miembro del Centro de Documentación en Filosofía Latinoamericana e ibérica de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Unidad Iztapalapa. Fuente: CEFILIBE UAM-I
a través de In Memoriam Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez —
Tithi Bhattacharya es marxista, feminista y profesora de historia de la Universidad de Purdue, en el Estado de Indiana (EE. UU.). En 2017 editó Social Reproduction Theory. Remapping Class, Recentering Opression, libro que tiene la particularidad de proponerse como una visión marxista de la Teoría de la Reproducción Social. Aquí presentamos una charla en la […]
a través de “Sobre la relación entre género y clase” Tithi Bhattacharya —
