{"id":57713,"date":"2022-01-03T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=57713"},"modified":"2022-01-09T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:44:21","slug":"stephanie-kelton-the-deficit-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stephanie-kelton-the-deficit-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Kelton&#8217;s The Deficit Myth: An Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is Stephanie Kelton&#8217;s <em>The Deficit Myth <\/em>about? How was the book received by critics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em><em>The Deficit Myth<\/em>,<\/em> economist Stephanie Kelton\u2014a former Senate Budget Committee staffer and 2016 campaign adviser to Bernie Sanders\u2014writes that nearly all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/political-discourse\/\">public discourse<\/a> about national debts and deficits gets the facts entirely wrong.&nbsp;Naturally, a controversial stance like this attracted a lot of criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading for a brief overview of <em>The Deficit Myth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-overview-of-the-book\"><strong>Overview of the Book<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A leading proponent of the heterodox economic school of thought known as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), Stephanie Kelton argues that it is incorrect to think of the U.S. federal government as \u201cneeding\u201d money to pay for its spending. Because the government is the sole supplier of U.S. dollars, it can simply create them anytime it needs more dollars to pay for something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This idea of the federal government as a currency <em>issuer <\/em>instead of a currency <em>user <\/em>is central to Stephanie Kelton&#8217;s <em>The Deficit Myth<\/em>, in which she champions more aggressive deficit spending by arguing that the U.S. government could finance any program it wishes to create. Kelton advocates a more holistic view of the economy\u2014arguing that we ought to focus on poverty reduction, combating climate change, and building a more just and equitable society as the <em>true <\/em>measures of economic success, rather than focusing solely on the narrow budgetary impacts of legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelton\u2019s argument rests on these key principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The federal government doesn\u2019t <em>need<\/em> to balance its budget like a household.<\/li><li>The risk of inflation\u2014not deficits\u2014represents the <em>real <\/em>threat to economic growth.<\/li><li>The national debt isn\u2019t a threat to our society or economy.<\/li><li>The trade deficit doesn\u2019t have to lead to job loss and unemployment.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Social spending programs like Medicare and Social Security are not in danger of going broke.<\/li><li>We should implement a federal jobs guarantee to secure the fundamental right of every person who wants a job to have one.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-criticism-and-praise\"><strong>Criticism and Praise<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Deficit Myth<\/em> is a controversial book in the economics world and has drawn a fair number of critics and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/people-who-dont-support-you\/\">detractors<\/a> since its publication in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> review claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-deficit-myth-review-years-of-magical-thinking-11591396579\">Kelton offers little evidence for her view that there is always slack<\/a>\u2014in other words, unemployed labor or idle capital\u2014in the economy, and that therefore new federal spending will almost never lead to inflation. The <em>Journal <\/em>review also observed that Kelton offered no hard numbers for just how much the robust spending programs she champions (including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/federal-job-guarantee\/\">federal job guarantee<\/a>, nationwide infrastructure package, and free college tuition) would actually cost\u2014leading the reviewer to doubt that the country has enough untapped capacity to finance these programs without sparking runaway inflation. Finally, the review noted that Kelton cites no works of serious scholarship to support her ideas and ignores historical examples in which economic doctrines similar to hers were tried and did indeed result in inflation, depression, and unemployment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <em>The Deficit Myth <\/em>also received its share of praise. The <em>London School of Economics Review of Books<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/lsereviewofbooks\/2020\/06\/22\/book-review-the-deficit-myth-modern-monetary-theory-and-the-birth-of-the-peoples-economy-by-stephanie-kelton\/\">celebrated Kelton\u2019s work as a paradigmatic shift in economics thinking<\/a>\u2014shattering the idea that fiscal deficits are inherently irresponsible and moving the conversation toward an acceptance of deficits as a necessary (and possibly even morally righteous) tool for creating a better society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Stephanie Kelton&#8217;s The Deficit Myth about? How was the book received by critics? 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