#94 Olafur Margeirsson: A Job Guarantee For Iceland

Patricia and Christian talk with economist, writer, real estate market strategist and alternate member of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Iceland Olaf Margeirsson about the economy of Iceland and his Job Guarantee proposal. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast Support Olaf's work via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/olafurmargeirsson Follow Olaf on Twitter (@IcelandicEcon): https://twitter.com/IcelandicEcon For an intro to MMT, listen to our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417 A quick read describing MMT: https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-modern-monetary-theory-72095 All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643 Our episode 20 with Warren Mosler on the UMKC Buckaroo (starting at 13:48): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824   Our episode 43 with Sam Levey on endogenous money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683 Olaf's writing: The State Can Afford This - But Should It?: https://sibs.is/fraedsla/greinar/rikid-hefur-efni-a-thessu-en-a-ad-gera-thad/ Iceland: We Need to Talk about Unemployment – and a Job Guarantee: http://www.global-isp.org/wp-content/uploads/PN-122.pdf Olaf's blog: https://icelandicecon.blogspot.com/ IS-LM: an explanation by John Hicks: attached   Maastricht And All That by Wynne Godley: https://gimms.org.uk/2020/07/19/maastricht-and-all-that/   Can Taxes and Bonds Finance Government Spending? by Stephanie Kelton: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp244.pdf   Upcoming MMT events & courses: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47531455   Sign up for "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics" (online course with Dr Dirk Ehnts, running 9th - 13th August 2021 - APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JULY 26TH 2021): https://maastricht.dreamapply.com/courses/course/134-modern-monetary-theory-and-european-macroeconomics?search=34057   Transcript for opening monologue: https://www.patreon.com/posts/49267705   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/49267564