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Jorge Amar is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and the president, and founding member of, the Full Employment and Price Stability Association (APEEP) in Spain. He has previously served as the coordinator of the economic commission of ATTAC Spain. Amar holds a degree in economics from the University of Valencia and is presently a doctoral candidate in Applied Economics at the Universidad Valencia. A retired police officer and former secretary of the primary police officer’s union in Valencia, Amar has co-authored several articles and book chapters on Modern Monetary Theory. He has also edited several Spanish translations of MMT texts, including Warren Mosler’s Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds and Bill Mitchel’s Eurozone Dystopia. More recently, Amar served as economic advisor for Spain’s Unidad Popular party within the Grupo de elaboración política (Policy Elaboration Group), a provisional task force coordinated by economist Eduardo Garzón.