Bill Mitchell — A Twitter Tempest Of Lies …

This is my curt Midweek offering, which volition move quite curt considering the end 2 days cause got been (necessary) epics. My three-part serial created somewhat of a social media storm, which agency people are interested inwards the theme together with I recollect that is healthy. Democracy is strengthened if people develop themselves together with competitor propositions that are abroad inwards the debate. But, equally I noted yesterday, social media storms cause got a trend of getting out of command together with out of the realm of beingness complementary to a to a greater extent than considered educative procedure together with interaction. What the recent Twitter tempest has demonstrated is that fundamental people are only willing to brand spurious accusations (aka lies) without having taken the fourth dimension to reckon the depth of the literature that is available on whatsoever topic. That is non helpful to democracy. It undermines it. Anyway, inwards this curt weblog post, I reckon around of the responses to my three-part series. As a footnote, I cause got directly retitled the three-part serial “MMT is only plainly skilful economics” rather than using the quotation from the British Shadow Chancellor’s advisor who said that “MMT is only plainly bad one-time economics”. Framing. I took the points of several commentators on this weblog seriously inwards this regard. Thanks. 

Bill Mitchell – billy blog
A twitter tempest of lies …
Bill Mitchell | Professor inwards Economics together with Director of the Centre of Full Employment together with Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia