El mito del deficit / The Deficit Myth

Stephanie Kelton

El mito del deficit / The Deficit Myth
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taurus
Country
United States
Published
22 June 2021
Pages
416
ISBN
9788430624102

El mito del deficit / The Deficit Myth

Stephanie Kelton

UN GIRO COPERNICANO: LA APORTACION MAS AUDAZ, RELEVANTE Y POLEMICA DE LOS ULTIMOS TIEMPOS AL DEBATE ECONOMICO.

Una fuente indispensable de claridad moral. Las herramientas que necesitamos desesperadamente para construir un futuro seguro para todos. Leanlo, y denle uso. -Naomi Klein

El deficit importa, pero no de la manera en que nos han ensenado a pensar.

Sostener la sanidad publica, crear puestos de trabajo, dotarnos de infraestructuras modernas, luchar contra la desigualdad, prevenir el apocalipsis climatico…, cualquier objetivo ambicioso inevitablemente se topa con la queja de como encontrar el dinero para financiar esos proyectos, enraizada en una serie de mitos sobre el deficit que nos obstaculizan de manera sistematica.

Basandose en las ideas de la Teoria Monetaria Moderna (TMM), un nuevo enfoque de la economia que ha tomado al mundo por sorpresa, Stephanie Kelton, una de las principales voces de esta corriente, articula una argumentacion rigurosa, accesible y convincente en contra de la vision ortodoxa de las finanzas publicas, que asume erroneamente que los gobiernos deben elaborar sus presupuestos como quien administra un hogar, que el deficit perjudicara a las siguientes generaciones y desplazara la inversion privada, o que los subsidios llevaran a una grave crisis fiscal.

Frente a eso, Kelton propone una forma novedosa de entender el dinero, los impuestos y el papel crucial del deficit presupuestario, asi como el modo en que podemos usar los recursos de manera responsable para maximizar nuestro potencial.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A New York Times Bestseller

The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory – the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades – delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.

Stephanie Kelton’s brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find the money to pay for it, rooted in myths about deficits that are hobbling us as a country.

Kelton busts through the myths that prevent us from taking action: that the federal government should budget like a household, that deficits will harm the next generation, crowd out private investment, and undermine long-term growth, and that entitlements are propelling us toward a grave fiscal crisis.

MMT, as Kelton shows, shifts the terrain from narrow budgetary questions to one of broader economic and social benefits. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential as a society. MMT gives us the power to imagine a new politics and a new economy and move from a narrative of scarcity to one of opportunity.

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