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my understanding is MMT doesn't work in countries outside the imperial core because they don't have currency sovereignty. MMT theorists are basically describing the USA leveraging its dollar hegemony.
I've been saying this for a while. If a country does not have a highly sovereign project or the ability to influence things such as credit ratings agencies, implementing MMT and printing money is a recipe for credit ratings downgrades, investment withdrawal, sanctions and hyperinflation/currency devaluation. And most countries in the global south do not have a sovereign project or have even begun the process of delinking from the imperial core. Even those in the global south that view MMT as a viable economic strategy place huge emphasis on delinking in order to solve the problem of sovereignty.
Look what happened when the MMT proponents got ahold of things in Greece. It failed rather quickly and buckled back into neoliberal economics because Greece has no sovereignty, it's an EU vassal
Yeah that's a good point, the video was pretty US centric tho but yeah I agree MMT doesn't make sense for a huge chunk of countries.