Then Kelton would ask, “Suppose that wand had the power to rid the world of US Treasuries. She would first ask if they would wave a magic wand that had the power to eliminate the national debt. Soon after joining the Budget Committee, Kelton the deficit owl played a game with the staffers. Unlike a deficit hawk or a deficit dove, Kelton’s deficit owl was “a good mascot for MMT because people associate owls with wisdom and also because owls’ ability to rotate their heads nearly 360 degrees would allow them to look at deficits from a different perspective” (p. When she was first selected, journalists reported that Senator Sanders had hired a “deficit owl”-a new term Kelton had coined. To illustrate the flavor of the book, we can review Kelton’s reminiscences of serving as chief economist for the Democratic staff on the U.S. The bad news is that Stephanie Kelton has written a book on MMT that is very readable and will strike many readers as persuasive and clever. The good news is that Stephanie Kelton-economics professor at Stony Brook and advisor to the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign-has written a book on Modern Monetary Theory that is very readable, and will strike many readers as persuasive and clever. Murphy is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
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