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Is it all lib hokum? I was in my local theory shop yesterday and was looking at The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton, something I put on my reading list a year and a half ago.

Since then I've listened to and read Matt Bruenig's criticisms of MMT and found them pretty convincing but I haven't really spent much time reading the anything on the "pro" side.

Is this worth my time to read a book on MMT or is it just a distraction? Thoughts?

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    3 years ago

    Yeah there's any annoying tendency for some people to just info dump the handful of things from Kant/Hegel/Deleuze/etc. they've read into only barely related discussions. Serious thinkers can actually synthesize new thought that doesn't require the reader have an undergraduate level education to know the context of.

    Glad all that seems to have gone straight down the memory hole

    Yeah turning into a turboracist tends to do that. Even ones I see reference him, typically talking about "hyperstition" which is a legit cool concept, omit his name if at all possible.