2 Ingelesez: “Senator Sanders from Vermont had picked Kelton to be his chief economist for the Senate Budget Committee during 2015.”

3 Ingelesez: “Black first worked with Sanders at a town hall event on the economic crisis while the Great Recession still raged on.”

4 Ingelesez: “… a fellow UMKC economics professor, credits Sanders for embracing thinkers from outside the economic mainstream. “The mainstream is a complete disaster and a complete disaster for our country,” Wray said.”

5 Ingelesez: “Meet Bernie Sanders’ Kansas City economists.

They’re Stephanie Kelton and William Black, and both hail from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Each has signed on as economic adviser to Sanders’ presidential campaign, formalizing the kind of work they’ve done with the senator from Vermont in recent years. “

6 Ingelesez: “Sanders’ campaign promises a political revolution fought on many economic battlefields. Sanders wants government-funded health care for all and free tuition at public colleges. He proposes spending $1 trillion on national infrastructure and breaking up the biggest banks. He has called income inequality “the great moral issue of our time.”” (1 trilioi amerikar = 1 bilioi europar)

7 Ingelesez: “The alternative thinking at UMKC includes calls for the federal government to become an employer of last resort, essentially guaranteeing work to those who want it just as Franklin Roosevelt’s programs did during the Great Depression. UMKC’s economics department also is a leading voice in modern money theory, an explanation of federal spending’s role in the economy that some have dubbed “the Kansas City school” of economic thought.”

8 Ingelesez: “In 2011, Sanders turned to Black, Kelton and Wray. Each served on a 12-member panel of experts to help the senator draft legislation to reform the Federal Reserve.

It was Kelton’s first Sanders connection, and they didn’t actually meet. The panel, spread far and wide, worked by telephone.

Still, Sanders chose Kelton for a much bigger role.

It was shortly before Christmas 2014 and Sanders was about to become the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee. The body oversees the Office of Management and Budget, working directly on federal spending, and he needed a chief economist.

To Kelton, who was chair of the UMKC department at the time, it was a big step as well as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After a whirlwind of interviews and paperwork, she soon landed in the nation’s capital.

(…)

As Sanders’ chief economist on the committee staff, Kelton worked constantly.”

9 Ingelesez: “Kelton left the budget committee post at the end of last year and is back at UMKC. Clearly, she is on board with Sanders’ key ideas and even has done a little campaign work, knocking on doors in Des Moines the day of the Iowa caucuses.

And her advice to the campaign remains the same.

“It’s time to get back to thinking about investment in infrastructure and education, those sorts of things that drive long-term economic growth,” she said. “This is what Senator Sanders is looking for.”

10 Ikus https://www.unibertsitatea.net/blogak/heterodoxia/2016/02/17/bernie-sanders/.

11 Ikus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFitmOTSok&feature=youtu.be.