Patricia and Christian talk to MMT economists L. Randall Wray and Yeva Nersisyan about their most recent paper, “What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?”

 

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“What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation: Pandemic or Policy Response?”

by Yeva Nersisyan & L. Randall Wray: https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/whats-causing-accelerating-inflation-pandemic-or-policy-response

 

“Still Flying Blind After All These Years: The Federal Reserve’s Continuing Experiments With Unobservables” by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou & L. Randall Wray: https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/ppb_156.pdf

 

“How to Pay for the Green New Deal” by Yeva Nersisyan & L. Randall Wray: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=339898

 

 

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Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678

Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835

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