2013 TED Prize Nomination Acknowledgement

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>   On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Barry wrote:
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Thank you for your 2013 TED Prize Nomination.
Your nomination and nominee will be reviewed over the coming weeks and you will be notified as to the success of your nomination by mid-September.

With best wishes,

The TED Prize team

http://www.tedprize.org


Best,
The TED Prize Team

interesting comment on my blog

Mosler knows!
Thayer knew!
Ruml knew!
Jim Lacey apparently knows, and so did a couple of economists that helped the USA prosecute and win WW2: Robert Nathan and Simon Kuznets.

Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II

I got to page 34.

“Orthodox economic thinking at the beginning of World War II held that taxes should finance wars on a pay-as-you-go basis.”

A fascinating book about what looks to be how MMT won the War. I’m still reading.
And I’m betting that we didn’t need to use all of Great Britain’s gold that they shipped to New York at the start of the war….