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#137 Eric Tymoigne: What Makes Something Money?

The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

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The Joy of Economic Story Telling

Policy makers often start with their desired political outcome, and then use economic story telling to find a justification after the fact. Once upon a time, there were three little pigs who built houses of their own. The clever one used a clus r of net worked computers to build a decentralized virtual house - which didn't fall down because it didn't exist physically. And they all got eaten by wolves happily ever after in el salvador. Just before we dive in, our friend and regular guest, doctor dirk ante, is running a week long m m t and european macro economics course at marstrick university on the week commencing 20 second august. i've linked to where

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