Hi Jason,

  In response to the exchange about MMT and international exchange, I am aware that MMT is a definitional system and that MMT economists have considered international currency implications. I shared that because I did consider and review some issues that were raised along those lines. But I am going to punt on the issue because, unfortunately, I just don’t have enough technical knowledge to really have an informed opinion. I never took a formal economics course, and only have taken Econ 101 in my car. Of all the social sciences, I am most woefully uniformed about economic theory. For example, if I read Paul Krugman’s critiques of MMT, and then explore the replies, I don’t know enough to have an opinion. As you know, I did try to engage Mossler on a discussion on MMT, but I never heard back from him.

 

  Switching gears to your point here about psychologists and helping to sooth the current antagonisms, I was JUST preaching this point to my personality class. We reviewed culture and then evolutionary approaches to personality and I used to Google/Damore Memo as an example (which I blogged about here) to say that we psychologists need to help people see through the chaos. Indeed, in this blog, I made exactly the “couples” analogy.

 

Best,

Gregg

 

 

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