Continuing their “Is MMT Real?” discussion series, Pete and Sparky sit down with Trevor Jackson, assistant professor of economic history at George Washington University and author of the forthcoming book Impunity and Capitalism: Afterlives of European Financial Crisis, 1680-1830, about the history of money and critiques of MMT from the left.
Read Trevor’s Dissent article “Future Monetary Theory” here: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/future-monetary-theory
Professor Jackson’s book Impunity and Capitalism: Afterlives of European Financial Crisis, 1680-1830 is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
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