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OGWhales 10 hours ago

I think it's worth looking at what was actually asked. From your article, they were asked these two questions:

> Countries that borrow in their own currency should not worry about government deficits because they can always create money to finance their debt

> Countries that borrow in their own currency can finance as much real government spending as they want by creating money.

MMT is quite clear about limiting factors that make those two statements false, yet the article frames them as "the basic aspects of MMT". To me, those questions feel intentionally malicious and even if not, the survey is certainly meaningless as to the opinions of economists on what MMT actually describes.