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...

Introduction; Theoretical foundations; Substance and purposes of economic activity; Money and credit; Debts and balance sheets; The creation of bank deposits; The creation of central bank deposits; The instruments of a central bank (monetary policy); The creation of sovereign securities (fiscal...

This book aims to showcase and advance recent debates over the extent to which undergraduate macroeconomics teaching models adequately reflect the latest developments in the field. It contains 16 essays on topics including the 3-equation New Consensus model, extensions and alternatives to this...