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Pocket Change

Pocket Change is focused on a school of economics known as Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT. MMT describes modern economies in which the national currency is fiat money that’s issued by a sovereign gove... Read more

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Episode 10: The Job Guarantee with Pavlina Tcherneva

Episode 10: The Job Guarantee with Pavlina Tcherneva

Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Economics at Bard College. She is als... Read more

29 Jan 2019

50mins

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Episode 9: MMT Critiques & Advocacy with Tyler Emerson

Episode 9: MMT Critiques & Advocacy with Tyler Emerson

Tyler Emerson is the host of Good Ancestry, the podcast for aspiring good ancestors. In this episode, Adam and Tyler dis... Read more

29 Jan 2019

1hr 28mins

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Episode 8: The History and Future of Money with Robert Hockett

Episode 8: The History and Future of Money with Robert Hockett

Robert Hockett is a lawyer, law professor, and policy advocate. He is Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law Sch... Read more

7 Sep 2018

1hr 1min

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Episode 7: MMT & Central Banks, Economics Departments, and Public Policy with Robert Hockett

Episode 7: MMT & Central Banks, Economics Departments, and Public Policy with Robert Hockett

Robert Hockett is a lawyer, law professor, and policy advocate. He is Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law Sch... Read more

22 Aug 2018

58mins

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Episode 6: MMT & Developing Nations with Fadhel Kaboub

Episode 6: MMT & Developing Nations with Fadhel Kaboub

Fadhel Kaboub is an Associate Professor of economics at Denison University and President of the Binzagr Institute for Su... Read more

19 Jun 2018

54mins

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Episode 5: State of the American Economy & Trump's Trade Policy with Warren Mosler

Episode 5: State of the American Economy & Trump's Trade Policy with Warren Mosler

Warren Mosler is one of the founding thinkers/economists behind Modern Monetary Theory. In this episode, Adam and Warren... Read more

1 Jun 2018

42mins

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Episode 4: "Money Famine" with Steve Larchuk

Episode 4: "Money Famine" with Steve Larchuk

Steve Larchuk is a veteran trial lawyer and historian from just outside of Pittsburgh, PA. Steve first learned about MMT... Read more

24 May 2018

49mins

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Episode 3: MMT Overview & Trump Tax Plan with L. Randall Wray

Episode 3: MMT Overview & Trump Tax Plan with L. Randall Wray

L. Randall Wray is a a professor of Economics at Bard College. Randy is one of the pioneering academics in the world of ... Read more

16 May 2018

44mins

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Episode 2: More MMT Basics with Sean Talia

Episode 2: More MMT Basics with Sean Talia

Adam Rice and Sean Talia discuss more MMT basics and how MMT relates to public policy, including 2017's Tax Cuts and Job... Read more

6 May 2018

32mins

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Episode 1: MMT for Beginners, Q&A with Steve Friedman

Episode 1: MMT for Beginners, Q&A with Steve Friedman

START HERE if you are new to MMT. In the first episode of Pocket Change, Steve Friedman and Adam Rice discuss the basics... Read more

6 May 2018

16mins

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