Functional Trade Policy - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

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From a MMT perspective, can you analyze the reasons behind the argument that imports are benefits while exports are costs, by looking at the assumptions and presumptions made, and if they are sound or flawed?
By adding a life-value axiom to real resource acquisition and distribution, given the heterogenous nature of these resources, can more clarity and better insights be brought in, so as to make the system more ecologically efficient, physical input-output efficient and human development efficient, as per John McMurtry?
From this perspective, using a life-cost and life-benefit lens, how can the life-value of imports and exports be reframed?
How is Money Created?
Given the interdependencies involved domestically in terms of government and private bank money creation and internationally with money flows from foreign trade and investments, how can a life-coherent supporting and development integration be harmonious constructed to balance the real life-costs and life-benefits over generational time and planetary space using the insights from MMT and McMurtry that have been elucidated above?
Given the instabilities due to climate destabilization, social inequities, conflicts and chronic health issues that we are facing right now which have implications for movement of people to secure livelihoods, how can this integrated life-centric MMT understanding optimally address the migration issues?
In this light, how can a fully coherent life-centric MMT-informed framework help guide The One Health, Health in All Policies, and the Whole Government-Society approach to holistic life support and development?
What are the present and future challenges to this paradigm shift, and how can these act not as stumbling blocks, but as stepping stones of catalytic transformative potential to achieving universally and holistically true life-enabling liberation and fulfillment in our individual and collective journeys of self- and other- realization? In other words, how can we identify the individual and collective shadows in our midst for recognition, awareness, acceptance and integration for full life-coherent transformation?
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How has Warren Mosler’s and Bill Mitchell’s different philosophical and political views affected in positive and negative ways the growth, development and evolution of MMT into the public and private spheres of engagements?
What is the basis for the statement in that in foreign trade, from an MMT perspective, imports are “good” and exports are “bad”?
What is Steve Keen’s view on this issue?
But is this not narrowly focused? What about real constraints related to biophysical limitations, sufficient social needs provisioning, thermodynamic efficiency, supply-chain security and just-in-case precautionary based principles that are needed to widen the boundaries of discourse and factorization to distill the wisdom some more from MMT? How would his then add to the arguments thus far?
Just like you have functional financing in MMT that challenges the perceived limitation of fiscal spending, is there a similar concept of functional financing in foreign trade discourses?
Given the spectrum and spread and inhomogeneities of nation states monetary sovereignty capabilities, floating or fixed foreign exchange rates, food and energy and resource and skills production capabilities variabilities and insecurities, does this not give amplifying selective advantages to the sovereign monetary states and disadvantages to every one else?
How can applying life-valuing functional trade policies and life-protecting and life-enhancing governance structures guided by MMT principles at the international level be conceptualized and operationalized in a life coherent manner.
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