Playing Monopolis Monopoly: An inquiry into why we are making ourselves so miserable | | New Economic PerspectivesNew Economic Perspectives

Playing Monopolis Monopoly: An inquiry into why we are making ourselves so miserable | | New Economic PerspectivesNew Economic Perspectives
Are we really too poor to put America back to work making and building the things we need to maintain a prosperous nation? Searching for an answer, I discovered a small (but growing) group of economists (see here, here, here, here, here, here) who represent an emerging school of thought known as “modern monetary theory” (MMT). These men and women are valiantly trying to make us all understand a paradigm shift that occurred some forty years ago, when the world abandoned the gold standard. Their key insight shocked me: A sovereign government is never revenue constrained when it is the Monopoly issuer of its own pure fiat currency; it has all the money that’s needed to put its citizens to work building anything—and providing any service—that is desired by the public (provided the real resources are available).