Introduction to Ōhanga Pai Q&A

This section Questions is for mostly philosophical discussions (in article form). Main topics include macroeconomics, economic justice, the Job Guarantee policy and fiscal versus monetary policy. For public banking (really just banking in general) I’ve drawn heavily upon the prior work of Warren Mosler, Randall Wray, and Eric Tymoigne.

For employment issues I draw on Mosler again, and Bill Mitchell & Pavlina Tcherneva . For popular macroeconomics discourse I rely upon Money on the Left and Stephanie Kelton @Market Watch. For numerical simulations the best foundations are found in the work of Steve Keen and Matheus Grasselli — who use sophisticated modern money Goodwin–Minsky models but which include banks, so are at a minimum three-sector models — as well as the guides by Ty Keynes which can help get you started with simulation dynamics software.

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Just keep in mind Ōhanga Pai is more a developers repository, not an activists forum. Activists are welcome to use any of our software, it is all free-libre software under the GNU General Public Licence.

Caveats

At the end of most articles on this website I will try to list essential caveats. These will mostly be of the nature “I’m not an expert here.” But for this introductory post you can easily tell which statements are factual and which are my opinions, so there are no further caveats needed for this one.