Recently, there has been a burst of interest in modern money theory (MMT). The essential claim of MMT is sovereign currency issuing governments do not need taxes or bonds to finance government spending and are financially unconstrained. MMT rests on a triad of arguments concerning: (i) the...

Overview: Financialization as financial neoliberalism -- Financialization: what it is and why it matters -- The macroeconomics of financialization: stages of development approach -- The simple analytics of debt-driven business cycles -- Deflation and inflation dynamics with debt -- Herd...

The short-run macroeconomic effectiveness of fiscal policy depends on the effect of policy on AD and the effect of AD on output. This paper examines how macroeconomic perspectives (Keynesian, Post Keynesian, monetarist, classical, new classical, and new Keynesian) describe the effect of AD on...