MMT and the job guarantee

MMT and the job guarantee

At the recent Scottish Festival of Economics, held in Edinburgh, Warren Mosler, who is credited with creating modern monetary theory (MMT), was asked whether he was frustrated that the idea had not received the attention it deserved. He acknowledged that it had received less attention than he would have wished and simultaneously suggested that MMT had, to date, produced only one superstar, whom he suggested to be me. In social media terms, looki…