Stephanie Kelton: Build a better economy & supercharge the climate transition

Stephanie Kelton leads a special event exploring whether deficits matter and how we think about government spending today and the implications for future generations.

Join author, academic and economist Stephanie Kelton, in conversation, for a discussion of her groundbreaking book The Deficit Myth, which explains modern monetary theory (MMT) and the critical role of deficit spending.

Stephanie Kelton is a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University and author of The Deficit Myth. She is a leading expert on Modern Monetary Theory and served as chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff) in 2015 and as a senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.