8-30-2020: This episode has been fully reproduced. Same content, better quality.

Welcome to the premiere episode of @ActivistMMT. Today I talk with Sam Levey (Twitter/@samhlevey) of Deficit Owls (Twitter/@DeficitOwls). Sam and I talk about the state of activism, his successes and difficulties as an MMT activist, and the growing pains of a burgeoning and disruptive community. Sam also gives some advice regarding pursuing a formal education in economics through an MMT-lens.

These two episodes are what inspired me to create this podcast.

You can find DeficitOwls on YouTube.

Sam's 2019 paper: "Modern Money and the War Treasury":

• PDF
• Twitter thread elaborating on the paper:
• Interview discussing the paper in general, with MMT Podcast, episodes thirty two and thirty three.

#LearnMMT

For an overview of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) with many reliable sources to learn more, here is a good place to start:

• On the web: My layperson intro with many expert sources listed at the bottom.
• On Twitter: My massive pinned tweet with expert sources and layperson tutorials.
• On Facebook: Follow this podcast :) The pinned post contains the above web-article. Also, the pinned post on Modern Monetary for Real Progressives contains a wealth of information.

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