William Francis Mitchell (1952) is a professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and Docent Professor of Global Political Economy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is one of the founding developers of Modern Monetary Theory.
Mitchell coined the term, "Modern Monetary Theory", also known as, "MMT". He coined the term about John Maynard Keynes' claim that for at least 4,000 years money has been "a creature of the state". He is a prominent promoter of MMT in macroeconomics.
Mitchell is a "passionate" cyclist. He was an "active bike racer" when, in 1995, he founded the website Cyclingnews.com.
Bill Mitchell is also a musician who has played guitar
professionally in various bands over the years. Mitchell currently plays with
Pressure Drop, a Melbourne-based reggae-dub band, originally popular in the
1970s and early 1980s. The band reformed in 2010.
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