Economic questions: the Wynne Godley question This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been, and what the relevance of that question might be ...

"... the #WynneGodley Question: If the financial balances of the economy must add up, and governments can see this in advance, why do they continue to pursue policies that make #crises inevitable and then pretend to be surprised when they arrive?..."
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As #WynneGodley famously demonstrated, the financial balances of the three macro sectors — Govt, private, and foreign — must sum to zero. In other words, one sector’s #deficit is always another’s #surplus.

Important Figures in the Development of MMT: Economist Wynne Godley, Pioneer of Stock-Flow Consistent Modelling and Populariser of Sectoral Balance Insights Wynne Godley's work on SFC modelling and sectoral balances provided an essential toolset for Modern Monetary Theory MMT academics as a way to analyse and understand financial flows within the economy.

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"Important Figures in the Development of MMT: Economist Wynne Godley, Pioneer of Stock-Flow Consistent Modelling and Populariser of Sectoral Balance Insights"

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Yes, reform is needed for distributional purposes. A federal budget deficit is in itself not problematic. If the domestic private sector wants to run a surplus, then either the federal govt or external sector must run a deficit. Our control over the latter is limited #MMT #wynnegodley