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Jacob Assa

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Senior Economist at @UNDPAfrica. PhD @TheNewSchool. #MMT, functional finance, development. #GreenNewDeal. Opinions are my own.

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I am thrilled to share that my article on the relativity of fiscal space, co-authored with @Marc_Morgan_, has been published:. #MMT @StephanieKelton @ptcherneva @FadhelKaboub @nssylla @DEhnts.
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RT @litewhisperer: "yet they never run out of money. Because they issue it!".
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RT @YanLian31677392: New Macroeconomics - Chinese translation of the MMT macro textbook. Product of years of hard work and a landmark devel….
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RT @robert_cauneau: The deficit is the natural position of the state budget. It's neither a mistake nor a mistake. It's a reflection of pri….
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RT @RelearningEcon: "Trying to improve a system by tinkering with its parts is like trying to improve a car's performance by painting it."….
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RT @litewhisperer: "Instead, tax billionaires to destroy their wealth".
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RT @treemissions: "Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." . — Gary Snyder
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RT @litewhisperer: "Money doesn’t exist until congress/parliament approves expenditures then the treasury demands the CB mark up accounts i….
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RT @RelearningEcon: "What we call 'the economy' is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, odd….
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RT @litewhisperer: "They rely on our ignorance for their power and wealth".
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RT @StephanieKelton: My latest. Link in next tweet.
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RT @RealProgressUS: "If private saving exceeds investment, then the private sector will be running a surplus; if taxes are less than govern….
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RT @ProfDavidFields: Contemporary education is a mechanism for reproducing social inequities, a business endeavor purposefully designed to….
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RT @JamesRobichaux: We also suffer from a cognitive malfunction that we could call The Commodity Orientation To Money that encourages us to….
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RT @Graeber_social: "My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transf….
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Indeed, especially the "tax-payer money" myth.
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"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." . -John Maynard Keynes
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RT @RealProgressUS: "Govt. IOUs . can be accumulated only when the govt. spends > it receives in the form of tax revenue. This is a gov….
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RT @climatemessages: DITHER AND DELAY HAVE COST US DECADES. #ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate.
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RT @LizGlab: "You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams,….
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RT @shaahin_a: I’m studying Veblen, Commons, Dewey, Mayhew, and others thanks to the fantastic set of materials curated by the wonderful @S….
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RT @litewhisperer: "the federal government (via law/Art1sec8) creates the dollar and by that same law destroys dollars when received as a t….
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