Dirk shares his personal journey: how he came to study economics and what led him to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). And of course, we talk about some of the key ideas in his book
About Dirk Ehnts
Dirk Ehnts is a German economist, one of Europe’s leading voices in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oldenburg and has taught at institutions including Bard College Berlin and the Maastricht University Summer School..
Dirk helped kick off the first European MMT Conference in 2019, and later that year joined Pavlina Tcherneva and Esteban Cruz-Hidalgo in calling for a European finance ministry and a Job Guarantee.
Since 2016, Dirk has been teaching MMT each summer at the Maastricht University Summer School. He’s also part of the MMT Summer School in Poznan, Poland — and helped organise the second European MMT Conference in 2021.
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