Beyond the Deficit Myth: Money, Government and the Public Interest | Sydney

Name: Beyond the Deficit Myth: Money, Government and the Public Interest | Sydney
Start: 2025-03-15T08:45:00+10:30
End: 2025-03-16T16:00:00+10:30
Location: Torrens University Australia

Schedule

Sat, 15 Mar, 2025 at 08:45 am to Sun, 16 Mar, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC+10:30

Location

Torrens University Australia | Adelaide, SA

A new interactive weekend seminar using modern monetary theory (MMT) as a guide to economic policy analysis, institutional reform, economic development, and promoting social justice and a transition to ecological sustainability.
The program will comprise a series of introductory talks by Associate Professor Steven Hail and participatory group discussions based on short articles and case studies covering the fundamentals of MMT.
Day One
9:30am—11:00am Part 1: Money - what it is and where it came from.
11:30am—1:00pm Part 2: The power of the purse - federal budgeting.
2:00pm—3:30pm Part 3: The big bad wolf - sources of inflation.
3:00pm — 4:30pm Part 4: FINDING THE MONEY documentary screening.

Day Two
10:00am—11:30am Part 5: The RBA - what it can do and what it can't.
12:00pm—1:30pm Part 6: Private money creation, financial resilience and financial fragility.
2:30pm—3:00pm Part 7: Exchange rates and international debt - small and not-so-small economies in a big system.
3:15pm—4:00pm Part 8: Things you and I could do next.
ABOUT FINDING THE MONEY:
An underdog group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down.
FINDING THE MONEY follows former chief economist to Senator Bernie Sanders, Stephanie Kelton, on a journey to unveil a deeper story about money, injecting new hope and empowering democracies around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.