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This week we’re bringing you all three sessions of the Real Progressives Book Club on L. Randall Wray’s Making Money Work for Us.

RP Book Club is run by our volunteers with guest experts leading the discussion and taking questions from attendees.  

This is much longer than our usual episodes of Macro N Cheese, so we’ve included the time codes for each session. 

[1:43] — Session One 

Guest economist Eric Tymoigne  

• Chapter 1, What is Money? 
• Chapter 2, Where Does Money Come From? 

[1:14:35] — Session Two 

Guest economist Yeva Nersisyan  

• Chapter 3, Can We Have Too Much Money?  
• Chapter 4, Balances Balance  
• Chapter 5, Life is Full of Trade-Offs 

[2:43:33] — Session Three 

Guest economist Randy Wray 

• Chapter 6, The MMT Alternative Framework for Policy  
• Chapter 7, MMT and Policy 

Use this link to order the book: Making Money Work for Us: How MMT Can Save America by L. Randall Wray

Eric Tymoigne is an Associate Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon; and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. @tymoignee on Twitter. 

Yeva Nersisyan is an Associate Professor of economics at Franklin and Marshall College and a Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. 

L. Randall Wray is a Professor of Economics at Bard College and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute.