\t\t\t\tA short clarification follows
\n
\nDear Readers<\/p>\n
I am aware that a person with the pseudonym BillyBlog is commenting on economic matters on other sites.<\/p>\n
For the record, that person is not me. I have a philosophical position that I should be personally accountable for my views and so I always use my real name – Bill Mitchell – and supply a valid E-mail address – on the rare occasions I do make comments on other sites.<\/p>\n
I do not like pseudonyms because I feel they absolve the person from taking responsibility and open up the possibility of abuse.<\/p>\n
In saying that, I do recognise that some people are in sensitive positions which would constrain their free speech (including many of the great female writers in history) and so a pseudonym allows them to contribute to public debate without compromising their personal status. Even though I recognise that situation I have always taken the view that I should speak freely on matters professional irrespective of the personal consequences.<\/p>\n
best wishes
\nbill\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A short clarification follows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}