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Deficits are not the constraint we think they are
TL;DR: My top six things to note around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy on Monday, August 12:
1. Thinking differently about what matters
I attended a two-day seminar in Auckland over the weekend called Economics for Sustainable Prosperity that was run by Steven Hail, a professor at Torrens University in Australia, in which he talked about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and Ecological Economics. I found it enlightening and thought-provoking. Regular readers may recall this introductory interview I had with him a few weeks ago.
I’ll be delving more into the ideas and…
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