: Mitchell is a primary architect of the Job Guarantee. The book argues that unemployment is a political choice, not an economic necessity. A federally funded, locally administered JG acts as an anchor for price stability and ensures full employment.
At its core, the textbook is a comprehensive introduction to MMT. As explained by Mitchell on his website, a key issue in undergraduate macroeconomics has been "a curious disregard for the role that income and wealth distribution play in determining the aggregate outcomes". MMT addresses this by providing a framework that focuses on the real resource availability as the true constraint on government spending, rejecting the way 'costs' are framed in mainstream debates.
Comparisons between the Classical system, IS-LM, and modern schools. Educational Impact and Availability
Here are a few recent publications by William Mitchell:
: It treats sovereign governments as currency issuers, not currency users.
The primary textbook titled Macroeconomics by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, and Martin Watts was published in February 2019 . It is the first core textbook to develop a Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
Government spending should be aimed at achieving full employment and price stability, rather than focusing on balancing the budget.
: Legitimate, fully searchable PDF and ePub versions are available for purchase or institutional rental via platforms like VitalSource or Kortext.
, is that mass unemployment is a policy choice, not a natural economic law. Mitchell advocates for a Job Guarantee
: It includes a detailed history of macroeconomic thought, from the "Classics" vs. Keynes debates to modern consensus.