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To clarify, MMT is not Keynesian, and not even post-Keynesian. The key figures that influenced the MMT development (Minsky, Hudson, Mitchell) were/are Marxists.
Keynes proposed government stimulus (deficit spending) only during crisis of capitalism, and fully supported right-wing austerity when the economy is going well. MMT says that the government should run a perpetual deficit spending program to drive the economy. That’s the key difference between Keynesianism and MMT.
I’m aware there’s a difference. Hudson’s just all over the place. The other day I was listening to him and Radhika Desai and he started using Georgist talking points and then suggesting that Capitalism has fallen to feudalism with the “rentier takeover.”
To clarify, MMT is not Keynesian, and not even post-Keynesian. The key figures that influenced the MMT development (Minsky, Hudson, Mitchell) were/are Marxists.
Keynes proposed government stimulus (deficit spending) only during crisis of capitalism, and fully supported right-wing austerity when the economy is going well. MMT says that the government should run a perpetual deficit spending program to drive the economy. That’s the key difference between Keynesianism and MMT.
I’m aware there’s a difference. Hudson’s just all over the place. The other day I was listening to him and Radhika Desai and he started using Georgist talking points and then suggesting that Capitalism has fallen to feudalism with the “rentier takeover.”