Happy 62nd Bday to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom!
The most pro worker policy is also the best alternative to the NAIRU. The Job Guarantee ends precarious work and unemployment, improves state budgets, controls demand driven inflation, &more share.google/1SaM1CqYkhCa...
What happens when you're drawn to MMT, only to have a jarring realization: that many in the community reject the idea that money is based on trust?
In our new episode, @robbhawkes.bsky.social discusses this exact moment and his work to build a new theory of trust for neochartalism.
Tremendous thanks to Steve Grumbine for having @wilbenjamin.bsky.social and I on the Macro N Cheese podcast to discuss *Blue Bonds.*
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Check out our conversation with Steve Grumbine about Blue Bonds. Episode drops tomorrow, Saturday 7/5 at 8 am Eastern.
Please message me if you'd like to take a look at a PDF.
Don't miss it. 👀
"If we could say that it was Reagan 1.0, Bush 2.0, it’s Trump 3.0 in the unitary executive theory waves."
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We at @moneyontheleft.bsky.social created a Blue Bonds Press Kit. Check it out! 👀
I'm thrilled to share our latest article for the MotL journal! Here, Rob Hawkes does important work rethinking the bases of social trust by affirming the fundamental publicness of monetary systems & eschewing the anti-social assumptions baked into exchange theories of "calculated risk." Must read!
I'm biased, but this is the best art in the MOTL series. Hale Woodruff, "Gate to the Campus" [Spelman College], 1935, black-and-white linocut.
Come for the art, stay for the endogenous money creation.
Honored to participate in this upcoming workshop on "The Black University and Community Currencies" at Morehouse College this Friday. If you're in the Atlanta area, please consider attending.
Thanks so much for inviting me! I had a blast.
See also Doctorow's The Lost Cause
Much like 19th-century canal, railroad, and mining companies, as well as 21st – century financial technology and cryptocurrency companies, gaming giants are engaging in private monetary governance.
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If you're in the public policy game looking for how to design a post-Trump society, reimagining public money needs to be at the center of your thinking. #econsky #publicpolicy #publicmoney
Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory.
Very important.
No "back to normal".
Only an improved social ordering can lead us out of this mess.
MotL 76 is live! 🗣️
✨Odious Debt w/ @edjonesc.bsky.social ✨
We speak with Corredera about his important new book, Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024).
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Please listen, read & share! 🎧 👩💻 🙌
New Essay! 🗣️
✨ Money is Not a Medium of Exchange ✨
Contra the "exchange" paradigm linked to myths of barter, Jens Martignoni argues that we must reconceive money as an inherently collective project and rethink monetary functions as resulting from political design.
Please read & share! 👩💻 🙌
"Put succinctly, we argue that the logic of sovereignty is not only violent, it is also outright false."
Thank you, Stavros!
I tried to put together some thoughts along those lines here, including an Isabella Weberian discussion of prices, the Job Guarantee, and Freirian public pedagogy
Is that the best single-sentence description of a monetary system, ever?
Episode 75 is live! 🔊
✨ Community Currencies w/ Jens Martignoni ✨
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