All episodes of Activist #MMT – with academics

This post contains every episode (and non-episode) of Activist #MMT with MMT academics. BACK TO ALL-EPISODES LIST (CATEGORIZED).

Episodes with the folowing academics are listed in separate posts:

• Dr. Joseph Firestone
• Sam Levey
• L. Randall Wray

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episodes of Activist #MMT with academics

This list is ordered by episode, however, episodes with snippets and other related sources are found below this list.

• 39 and 40: Clint Ballinger: The funding is the decision to do it. (Plus: bonds suck) (Clint is an academic but not directly of MMT) (related post: Monetary Reform and Positive Money (and comparing them to MMT))
• Mathew Forstater:
  • Ep 49 [1/5]: Mat Forstater: On Mat Forstater and the challenges of being heterodox.
  • Ep 50 [2/5]: Mat Forstater: How millions at the bottom are disappeared by unemployment statistics.
  • Ep 60 [3/5]: Mat Forstater: Tales from the history of MMT.
  • Ep 61 [4/5]: Mat Forstater: The Pavlina Tcherneva origin story (and other tales from the history of MMT).
  • Ep 62 [5/5]: Mat Forstater: More tales from the history of MMT.
  • Ep 63 [6/5]: Mathew Forstater: The purpose of MMT, and the second law of thermodynamics..
• Pakistani PhD. economist Asad Zaman:
  • Ep 56 [1/2]: Asad Zaman: Realizing your entire career is a sham after thirty years.
  • Ep 57 [2/2]: Asad Zaman: Win or lose, MMT is on the side of the angels.
• episodes 58 and 59: Jim Kavanagh: A Marxist academic and MMTer.
• Ep66 [1/2, 3/4]: Dirk Ehnts & Asker Voldsgaard: Good-faith criticism of MMT (and their fatally-flawed assumptions)
• Ep 69 [2/2, 4/4]: Dirk Ehnts and Asker Voldsgaard: Political economy (saving economics, economics education, and ourselves)
• Ep82 [1/1, 1/7]: Richard Tye: The history of the U.K. Exchequer (and interdisciplinarity)
• Ep83 [1/2, 2/7]: Andy Berkeley: Palestine and piano [NOT MMT]
• Ep84 [2/2, 3/7]: Andy Berkeley: Confirming the theory applies to the real world.
• Ep85 [1/2, 4/7]: How Neil Wilson came to MMT (and Reddit).

John Harvey:

• Ep 44[1/3]: John Harvey on John Harvey, discrimination, and aliens
• episodes 45 and 46: John Harvey on inflation: mainstream versus Post Keynesian (and the MMT job guarantee)
• Ep 72 [1/2]: John Harvey: The Battle of the Bulge (and the nitty gritty of Exchange Rate Determination)
• Ep 73 [2/2]: John Harvey: The nitty gritty of exchange Rate Determination
• The full audio of every episode of John’s The Cowboy Economist.

Camille Walsh:

• episodes 12 and 13: Author Camille Walsh: Racial Taxation (taxpayers and taxeaters)
• Camille Walsh: Full presentation and Q&A at #MMTConf19

Snippets from other podcasts

Money on the Left:

• Snippet: Alexandra Scaggs on discovering MMT, Fed “independence,” and repo-101.
• Snippet: Nathan Tankus on Fred Lee, heterodox microeconomics, and MMT
• Snippet: Nathan Tankus: How inflation and prices are used as tools for racial discrimination

MMT Podcast:

• Snippet: Scott Ferguson: the MMT view of Marx’s labor theory of value

Audio of lectures/videos/presentations/etc. (both full and snippets)

• Full lecture: Stephanie Kelton’s Angry Birds and Deficits
• Full (and improved) audio: MMTConf19 panel: Money, Imperialism, and Development
• The full audio of every episode of John’s The Cowboy Economist.

Bill Mitchell snippets:

• Snippet: Bill Mitchell on the false household analogy
• Snippet: Bill Mitchell on the aging society problem
• Snippet: Bill Mitchell: gov’t borrowing is corporate welfare
• Snippet: Bill Mitchell on hyperinflations: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Weimar Germany
• Full lecture: Bill Mitchell: Most progressives are neoliberals in disguise (2017)
• Full lecture: Bill Mitchell: Train the Trainers (May 2019 w/ Gower)
• Full lecture:Steven Hail: Modern Monetary Theory, the Economy, and the Virus.