Beyond the Usual Response: Dismantling MMT’s Accounting Claim

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Tags: Monetary Theory, Other Schools of Thought, Taxes and Spending

10/24/2026 Robert P. Murphy

This week, Bob does a deep dive on the accounting argument at the heart of MMT, as a teaser for his chapter in the Mises Institute’s forthcoming book, Anti-MMT: The Errors of Modern Monetary Theory.

Related:

Coming soon: Anti-MMT: The Errors of Modern Monetary Theory: Mises.org/HAP566a
The Charts Used in this Episode: Mises.org/HAP566b

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