Modern Monetary Theory is refocusing economics on an important set of ideas: monetary sovereignty, the resource constraint, and a basic jobs program. There are curious parallels to cryptocurrencies. But MMT still has some ways to go to become the ecologically and socially sound theory of money we so desperately need| ebuchman.github.io
If Alexander The Great brought a few hundred years of early European cultural evolution to the East, it wasn't until the empire of Genghis Khan, the Modest Mongolian, that a *millenium* of Chinese cultural evolution was brought back West, effectively ending the Middle Ages and laying the foundation for the Enlightenment in Europe. This is the story of how Genghis Khan conquered the world.| ebuchman.github.io