#112 Dirk Ehnts: Economic Policy In A Post-Pandemic World

In anticipation of the 2nd International European MMT conference, Patricia & Christian talk to economist and author Dr Dirk Ehnts about Berlin's housing referendum, automation, production bottlenecks, pensions, demand management, inflation, interest rates, and achieving a sustainable future.   Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast   For an intro to MMT: Listen to our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417   All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643   All of our episodes with Dirk Ehnts: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44467243   Dirk Ehnts' website: https://www.dirk-ehnts.de/   Dirk Ehnts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DEhnts   Warren Mosler MMT white paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gvDcMU_ko1h5TeVjQL8UMJW9gmKY1x0zcqKIRTZQDAQ/edit   Our Job Guarantee Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/our-job-episodes-44722328   A brief overview of the Job Guarantee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIBER   An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer by Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: https://gimms.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/An-Accounting-Model-of-the-UK-Exchequer-2nd-edition.pdf   Details about the 2nd International European MMT conference (September 13th-15th 2021): https://www.mmtconference.eu A list of upcoming MMT events and courses: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47531455   A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757   We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos   Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55242222