evidence: Today, Mosler lives in St. Croix, a U.S. territory where he can avoid paying ninety per cent of his federal income tax. ("This is an actual U.S., federally sponsored program," he told me. "I’m doing my patriotic duty.") Mosler estimated that he has contributed about three million dollars to the M.M.T. movement in the course of a couple of decades, and, "if anything, I get kind of defensive about not having spent more." The money has subsidized academic posts, conferences, and scholarships and has helped turn institutions like the Levy Institute, at Bard College, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City into fertile grounds for M.M.T. thought.