#188 Election special with Dirk Ehnts

What every voter needs to know: Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author of “MMT: A Simple Guide to the Monetary System”, Dr Dirk Ehnts about the upcoming UK election and what’s missing from media coverage.

 

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• July 15-17 Inaugural UK Modern Monetary Theory Conference (Leeds, UK): https://mmtconference.uk/conference2024/
• August 19th - 23rd Dirk Ehnts’ Maastricht University Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics course (application deadline 19th July): https://maastricht.dreamapply.com/courses/course/183-modern-monetary-theory-and-european-macroeconomics
• August  27-29 MMT Summer school (Poznan, Poland): https://fundacjalipinskiego.pl/wydarzenia/mmt-4th-summer-school-in-poznan/
• August  30 - September 2nd, 4th European MMT Conference (Berlin, Germany) no details published yet, but updates will be here: https://www.mmtconference.eu/
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Relevant to this episode:

• “MMT: A Simple Guide to the Monetary System” by Dirk Ehnts: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Money-Theory-Professional-Organizations/dp/3031535367/
• For more on how commercial banks fit into the credit creation system, listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 and episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: