Digital Currencies - The Main Plus of Them All

Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author Professor Eric Tymoigne about the history of money, cryptocurrency, and what makes some monetary instruments more instrumental than others.

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For an intro to MMT:

Listen to our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417

And Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643

Eric Tymoigne’s bio and publications: https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/51-eric-tymoigne

Eric Tymoigne On Twitter: https://twitter.com/tymoignee

More on monetary operations:

Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824

Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887

Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683

“An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer – 2nd edition” by Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: https://gimms.org.uk/2021/02/21/an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer/

Our episodes about “An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer”:

Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183

Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929 

More on inflation:

Episode 7: Steven Hail: Inflation, Price Shocks and Other Misunderstandings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41780508

Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678

Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835

Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379

Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

More details on Dirk Ehnts’ "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics” course at Maastricht University: https://maastricht.dreamapply.com/courses/course/134-modern-monetary-theory-and-european-macroeconomics?search=34057

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We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

Transcript for opening monologue: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69607748

Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69607717