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Were any of those actually attempts at Modern Monetary Theory? From what I understand of it, an important aspect of the theory is that inflation should be controlled by removing currency from circulation through taxation. Even the two examples cited from France don't sound like MMT to me. They didn't create money out of nothing, instead they sold something the state already owned to its people to collect money from the public without resorting to excessive taxation. (I do agree with the writers that Modern Monetary Theory is kind of a dumb name. Wikipedia suggests a different name: Neo-chartalism.)previous examples of MMT—Venezuela, Zimbabwe, the Weimar Republic, Revolutionary France