Those warning of “helicopter drops” of money by central bankers, as Ben Bernanke is often accused of doing in 2010, actually do not understand modern monetary operations. This post demonstrates that central bank operations generally are not helicopter drops, while fiscal operations in fact...

Central to current policy debates regarding public pensions, the appropriate macroeconomic policy mix, and any number of other issues related to growth, development, poverty alleviation, and so forth, is the concept of fiscal sustainability. For neoclassical economists, fiscal sustainability is...

1. The Basics of Modern Money Theory -- 2. The Basics of Macroeconomic Accounting -- 3. Spending by Issuer of Domestic Currency -- 4. The Domestic Monetary System: Banking and Central Banking -- 5. Fiscal Operations in a Nation That Issues Its Own Currency -- 6. Tax Policy for Sovereign Nations...

Manche Ökonomen halten die Modern Money Theory (MMT) nicht nur für die Weiterentwicklung der Thesen von John Maynard Keynes, sondern auch für das richtige oder sogar einzige Rezept für erfolgreiche Finanzpolitik des 21. Jahrhunderts. Andere, wie etwa Paul Krugman, kritisieren sie scharf und...