Why bother with economics? Why bother with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)? After-all, the government can still govern without bothering about MMT.

Anne & Kev make the case we need MMT to unshackle our minds from many false beliefs about the possibilities available to our new federal government. We find much to look forward to with a government that spends properly. We can prevent ourselves from becoming accidental neoliberals!

Anne & Kev bounce their ideas off a webinar featuring Richard Denniss (Chief economist and former Executive Director of the Australia Institute) as hosted by the New Economy Network Australia (NENA).

Show Notes

NENA's 2022 Federal Budget Rundown - with Richard Denniss(link is external)
Apr 6, 2022

The Deficit Myth with Stephanie Kelton
in conversation with Richard Denniss, Chief economist and former Executive Director of the Australia Institute
June 18, 2020

Credits

Then leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott,
speaking with host Fran Kelly on ABC's RN Breakfast(link is external), back in February 2010.

Music

Theme music:
One in Ten by UB40

Additional music:

Swinging Sofas(link is external) (ID 272) - Remastered by Lobo Loco is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Kelli's Number(link is external) by U.S. Army Blues is licensed under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License.

Gregorian Chant(link is external) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Quiz Show Background Music Loop with changes(link is external)
by Alexander Blu
The song is permitted for non-commercial use under license “Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)”