Ba ote daukate ezer komunik literaturak eta ekonomiak?
Ez dakit, baina hona hemen tanta interesgarri batzuk.
a) Margaret Atwood[1]
Geure aldetik, blog honetan ere, zertxobait aipatu dugu. Zorra da kontua[2].
Randall Wray-k ere, MMT-ko aitaponteko batek, behin baino gehiagotan aipatu du Atwood-en obra hori.
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bill Mitchell-ek, MMT-ko beste aitaponteko batek, Coleridge aipatu du, On the Vulgar Errors Respecting Taxes and Taxations izeneko lana, hain zuzen ere.
Mitchell-ek “Poeta batek ekonomialari gehienek baino gehiago jakin duenean” lantxoan dioenez[3],
“Samuel Taylor Coleridge knew 200 odd years ago that government spending was essential to provide infrastructure and economic growth that bound the nation together “from the Orkneys to the Rocks of Scilly”.”
Beraz, Eurolandiari dagokionez, Mitchell-en hitzez,
“I suggest the ECB officials take a break for a few days and read some of his poetry and essays and then turn up at work on Monday and announce a major funding package for all struggling member states.”
c) William Shakespeare
Veneziako merkataria[4] aipatzen du Marshall Auerback-ek.
Auerback-ek dioenez,
“In the great Shakespearean comedy, Shylock agrees to lend money to Bassanio on the credit of Antonio, Shylock’s Christian rival. Shylock, suspicious of Antonio, sets the security as a pound of Antonio’s flesh. When Antonio’s merchant ventures fail and he cannot come up with the money to pay off Bassanio’s loan, Shylock demands the pound of flesh, which will surely kill Antonio. Of course, in the end, Shylock is foiled. Dressed as an eminent judge, Antonio’s indirect beneficiary Portia takes Shylock’s insistence on the letter of the bond to its absurd conclusion. The bond specified only a pound of flesh, she maintains, but “no jot of blood.”.”
Eurolandian gauza bertsua daukagu. Izan ere, Auerback-en hitzez,
“In much the same way, Germany’s ongoing insistence on its pound of Spanish, Italian, Greek, or Irish flesh via further fiscal austerity is impossible to secure without spilling further massive quantities of blood from the periphery body politics. Like Shylock, Germany apparently fails to appreciate extracting too much flesh from the borrower ultimately does draw away its lifeblood, making repayment impossible. Much like Shylock, Berlin is trapped. Only the ECB as “judge” can offer a way out. Will Germany see that, or will it risk a fate as ignominious as Shylock?”
Literatura eta ekonomia, biak, lotuta MMT-en bitartez, alegia, DTM-ren bidez.
