Money on the Left
206 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 63 ratingsMoney on the Left is a monthly, interdisciplinary podcast that reclaims money’s public powers for intersectional politics. Staging critical conversations with leading historians, theorists, organizers, and activists, the show draws upon Modern Monetary Theory and constitutional approaches to money to advance new forms of left critique and practice. It is hosted by William Saas and Scott Ferguson and presented in partnership with Monthly Review magazine. Check out our website: https://moneyontheleft.org Follow us on Twitter & Facebook at @moneyontheleft
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Superstructure: Franciscan Fun Pack
February 28, 2021 17:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBCohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, & Maxximilian Seijo are joined by Ian from Twitter (@tweet_boxian) to visit America’s favorite socialist family, the Bruenigs. They begin with reflections on a New York Times piece by Elizabeth Bruenig on the need to forgive the recently canonized Franciscan friar Junipero Serra, who oversaw the torture, enslavement and murder of indigenous Americans in California during the 18th century. Next, they consider Matt Bruenig’s “Family Fun Pack” policy paper. T...
Superstructure: JG Resolution (with Andrés Bernal)
February 18, 2021 21:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBIn the wake of the release of Rep. Ayanna Pressley's (D-MA) job guarantee resolution, Maxximilian Seijo invites Andrés Bernal to reflect on this historical moment in intersectional left-wing activism. Link to the resolution: https://pressley.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-pressley-economists-advocates-unveil-historic-federal-job-guarantee Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
Superstructure: Marx Was Right
February 15, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBScott Ferguson joins Maxximilian Seijo to discuss method and the dangers of overly positive or negative orientations to the historical world. First, they critique Liam Kofi Bright’s problematic revival of logical positivism, which submits left praxis to reductive and exclusionary market models. Next, they affirm the negative approaches to aesthetic criticism found in the works of Siegfried Kracauer, the Frankfurt School, and Fredric Jameson. Finally, they celebrate the often-overlooked “doub...
Modern Movie Theory: Sharing Parts in Kiarostami's Close-Up (Preview)
February 04, 2021 18:00 - 9 minutes - 6.66 MBThis Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our third premium release, a one-off lecture from Scott Ferguson on Abbas Kiarostami's Close Up (1990) for Patreon subscribers. The full video lecture can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/modern-movie-in-46862120 For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send ...
The Franciscan Invention of the New World with Julia McClure
February 01, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBMoney on the Left is joined by Julia McClure, lecturer in Late Medieval & Early Modern Global History at the University of Glasgow. McClure’s 2017 book, The Franciscan Invention of the World, draws compelling and confounding conclusions about the role of the late Medieval Franciscans in shaping the modern capitalist and colonialist world. We talk with McClure about how these surprising but profound connections relate to the problematic construction of money in Western modernity as a kind of ...
Superstructure: Film Theory of the State
January 21, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBIn this episode, cohosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo reflect on some ill-fated responses to the right-wing insurrection at the Capitol, utilize feminist psychoanalysis to articulate a film theory of the state, and meditate on the mental health side of an MMT-informed left-wing praxis. Link to our Patreon: https://patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure… Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting. http://flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.c...
Superstructure: Overcoming Pessimism with Adorno (Maxx Uncut)
January 20, 2021 01:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBIn this short episode, Maxximilian Seijo reads from Theodor W. Adorno's Negative Dialectics, complicating the philosopher's discussion of nihilism to critique contemporary left pessimism. Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
Historicizing the Neoliberal Blockbuster (Preview)
January 13, 2021 19:00 - 13 minutes - 9.41 MBThis Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our second premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. ...
Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan (rerelease)
January 01, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBKicking off a brand new multi-media publishing platform at moneyontheleft.org, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective presents a classic episode from our archives along with a previously unavailable transcript & graphic art. In this episode, we are joined by Christine Desan, Leo Goettlieb professor of law at Harvard Law School to discuss her excellent book, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism. Desan argues that money is a constitutional project, countering the dubi...
Superstructure: the Fascist Analogy (with Daniel Bessner)
December 30, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBIn this episode, Natalie Smith & Maxximilian Seijo host Daniel Bessner (@dbessner) to debate the pertinence of contemporary leftist efforts to analogize Trumpian neoliberalism to 1930s fascism. The conversation also takes up matters of left strategy & media, including the role of theoretical provocation and the politics of online culture. Link to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirti...
Why Do We Fall?: Introduction to the Neoliberal Blockbuster (Preview)
December 23, 2020 17:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis Money on the Left/Superstructure teaser previews our first premium release from Scott Ferguson's "Neoliberal Blockbuster" course for Patreon subscribers. For access to the full video lecture, subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure. If you are interested in premium offerings but presently unable to afford a subscription, please send a direct message to @moneyontheleft or @Superstruc on Twitter & we will happily provide you with membership access. C...
Superstructure: Close Encounters with the Dirtbag Left
December 18, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBSuperstructure cohosts Will Beaman and Natalie Smith are joined by Scott Ferguson and Andrés Bernal to reflect on a recent "close encounter" with the Dirtbag Left. They diagnose the perverse comfort that the Dirtbag Left takes in contracting political economy around fixed points of "leverage" over political elites. Touching on the Jimmy Dore controversy and a recent Chapo episode on Avatar, the team compares the austere physics metaphors that structure the Left's hopelessness to neoliberal a...
Superstructure: Modern Movie Theory (MMT): Avengers: Infinity War
December 11, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 86.3 MBKicking off a Money on the Left / Superstructure Patreon fund drive, Scott Ferguson joins Maxximilian Seijo on the Superstructure podcast to discuss MMT, eco-fascism and Avengers: Infinity War. This premium Superstructure episode offers listeners a sneak peek at Ferguson’s Hollywood Blockbuster course, which will be rolled out for subscribers in the coming months. While we appreciate support for our premium content on Patreon from those who can afford it, this is not a hard paywall! If you ...
Superstructure: Superstructure Works (with Matt Christman)
December 04, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBIn this episode, Maxximilian Seijo (@maxseijo), Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) & Natalie Smith (@orangeasm) are joined by Matt Christman (@cushbomb) from Chapo Trap House to discuss their critique of his zero-sum methodology. Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting. flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.com/ Twitter: @actualflirting Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
New Laws of Robotics with Frank Pasquale
December 02, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBFrank Pasquale joins Money on the Left to discuss the legal and monetary politics that will determine the future of automation. Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, Pasquale is author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (2015) as well as recently published New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (2020), both with Harvard University Press. He is a leading thinker in the law of A.I., algorithms, and machine learni...
Superstructure: Reading Jacobin from the Left
November 22, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBHosts Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo critique the Enlightenment myth that treats private property as the basis of political economy and they reflect, in particular, on the limits of a contemporary left media ecosystem that unquestioningly relies upon this spurious foundation for analysis & praxis. Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
Superstructure: Abolitionism: What is and What Could Be with Dan Berger
November 12, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBCohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Maxximilian Seijo are joined by historian Dan Berger to reflect on the political economy of abolitionism and its critical importance for the Left. Dan Berger (Twitter: @dnbrgr) is an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington at Bothell. Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting. flirtingfullstop.bandcamp.com/ Twitter: @actualflirting Link to our Patreon: www.p...
Public Money, Public Media with Victor Pickard
November 06, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBVictor Pickard joins Money on the Left to discuss the public bases and potentials of money and media in The United States. Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Pickard is a prolific researcher and author of over one hundred articles and six books on the history of media institutions, media activism, and the avowedly political and public foundations of journalism and media policy. Our conversation with Pic...
Superstructure: Why MMT?
October 29, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBCohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Maxximilian Seijo reflect on the importance of Modern Monetary Theory for the Left. Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
Superstructure: The Virus is the Virus
October 14, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBPulling from the archive, Money on the Left presents the second episode of the Superstructure podcast, "The Virus is the Virus." In this episode, hosts Will Beaman and Maxximilian Seijo embark on a deep dive into intersections between the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben and reductive Marxist discourses around capitalism and nature. In so doing, they uncover a highly problematic historical and political economic lineage for the widely used COVID19 meme: 'Capitalism is the virus'. Link to...
Superstructure: Tragedy of the Commons
October 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBCohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo discuss Maxx's recent article in the Journal of Environmental Media, titled “Governing media information through a Green New Deal: History, theory, practice." Featuring a special report by Australian Twitter Correspondent @moltopopulare from inside the Superstructure, and a surprise call-in from friend of the show, Liz Bruenig. Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting. flirtingfull...
Superstructure: Tragedy of the Commons
October 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBCohosts Will Beaman, Natalie Smith and Maxximilian Seijo discuss Maxx's recent article in the Journal of Environmental Media, titled “Governing media information through a Green New Deal: History, theory, practice." Featuring a special report by Australian Twitter Correspondent @moltopopulare from inside the Superstructure, and a surprise call-in from friend of the show, Liz Bruenig. Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But Me” EP by flirting. flirtingfull...
Money After Redlining with Rebecca Marchiel
October 01, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBLink to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure
Superstructure: Critique after Bernie
September 26, 2020 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBDipping into the archive, Money on the Left presents the very first episode of the Superstructure podcast. Framed by a cold open from Chapo Trap House's recent Bernie retrospective, hosts Will Beaman and Maxximilian Seijo inaugurate the Superstructure project with a discussion of the failures of a reified left wing imagination. To chart a path forward for an MMT-informed leftist praxis, they critique reductive castigations of spectacle, damaging affirmations of scarcity and zero-sum politics...
Superstructure: Red Scared (with @moltopopulare)
September 17, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBWill, Naty and Maxx are joined by @moltopopulare to critique the hopeless aesthetic imagination of the Red Scare podcast and related films by Red Scare cohost Dasha Nekrasova.
Money on the Left Presents: Superstructure
September 08, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBMoney on the Left is thrilled to introduce the latest project by our growing collective over at the Modern Money Network Humanities Division: Superstructure. Superstructure is a new podcast hosted by Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Money on the Left’s own Maxx Seijo. Debuting in late Spring 2020 via Soundcloud and other platforms, Superstructure builds on the sensibility Money on the Left has made legible, but it does so through a daring new model of left podcasting which combines high-o...
Money on the Left Presents: Superstructure
September 08, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBMoney on the Left is thrilled to introduce the latest project by our growing collective over at the Modern Money Network Humanities Division: Superstructure. Superstructure is a new podcast hosted by Will Beaman, Natalie Smith, and Money on the Left’s own Maxx Seijo. Debuting in late Spring 2020 via Soundcloud and other platforms, Superstructure builds on the sensibility Money on the Left has made legible, but it does so through a daring new model of left podcasting which combines high-o...
Resisting Predatory Finance with Raúl Carrillo (Transcript)
September 02, 2020 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBTranscript: https://mronline.org/2020/09/02/resisting-predatory-finance-with-raul-carrillo/ Raúl Carrillo, organizer for economic justice and scholar of law, race, and money, joins Money on the Left to explore the promise of the public money framework for advancing antiracist, anti-imperialist, and democratic politics across the world. We discuss how the public money or MMT perspective shapes his work as an attorney fighting against predatory finance and for an international, rights-based a...
Money, Music & Method with Alex Williams
July 15, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBEconomist, musician & Money on the Left audio engineer, Alex Williams, joins the podcast to discuss money, music and method in light of Modern Monetary Theory and heterodox economics. At the outset, we chat about methodology and the riddles of “administrative capacity” that drive so much of Williams’ work. Next, Williams guides us through his proposal for arts and culture provisioning under a federal Job Guarantee by way of a critique of the anti-money, laissez-faire DIY music scene in which...
Place, Participation & #Unis4All with Benjamin Wilson
June 19, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBEconomist Benjamin Wilson joins Money on the Left to discuss heterodox approaches to place, participation, and the politics of university finance. Associate professor of economics at SUNY Cortland, Wilson received his interdisciplinary Ph.D. from University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), where he took courses with some of the leading lights of heterodox economic theory, including Stephanie Kelton, Mathew Forstater, and Fred Lee. In both his research and his pedagogy, Ben combines his commi...
Coordination Beyond the Corporation with Sanjukta Paul
May 18, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBIn this episode, Maxx and Scott speak with legal scholar Sanjukta Paul about imagining alternative and more just forms of economic association in ways that denaturalize the 20th-century monopolistic firm. The key, Paul argues, is to reveal and contest the public “coordination rights” that legally structure all economic activity. Sanjukta Paul is Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University. Her current research and writing involves the intersection of antitrust law and labor polic...
#MintTheCoin & COVID Relief with the Modern Money Network
April 10, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBRohan Grey and Nathan Tankus join Money on the Left to discuss the flurry of debate about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) arising out of the Coronavirus crisis. We focus, in particular, on the Modern Money Network’s multi-pronged efforts to illuminate and remedy the resulting economic devastation. At the center of our conversation is Rohan’s contribution to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s “Automatic BOOST Act.” Known by the popular hashtag #MintTheCoin, Tlaib’s proposal calls on the U.S. Treasury to mint ...
Building Capacity with Money on the Left
March 11, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBThis month’s Money on the Left episode departs from the show’s regular interview format to reflect on the past, present and future of the Money on the Left project as a whole. We focus, in particular, on a recent special scholarly journal issue dedicated to Money on the Left, which was published by Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies and guest-edited by our friend Andrés Bernal. The issue joins archival text, audio and video with fresh essays about institution building, history, a...
From Liberation Theology to Public Money Creation with Delman Coates
February 16, 2020 17:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBReverend Dr. Delman Coates joins Money on the Left to discuss why the politics of public money creation are essential for social and spiritual liberation. Dr. Coates holds a Master’s in Divinity from Harvard and a Ph.D. in New Testament & Early Christianity from Columbia University. He currently serves as Senior Pastor at Mount Ennon Baptist church in Clinton, Maryland, and is founder of OUR MONEY, an organization fighting to restore democratic control over public money. In this episode, we ...
Covering the Paradigm Crisis with Alexandra Scaggs
January 15, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBAlexandra Scaggs joins Money on the Left to discuss her experience covering the ongoing paradigm crisis in mainstream economics, central banking and finance--and why leftists should be paying close attention. Alexandra is presently a senior writer at Barron’s, where she covers markets and fixed income. Giving credit to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) for turning her toward left politics, Alexandra has proven an important contributor to the MMT project through her critical financial journalism a...
Neoclassical Marxism (Christmas Special) with @NMarxism
December 15, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBThis December, we bring you a special Christmas episode of our program, featuring the enigmatic operator behind the increasingly popular Twitter account known as “Neoclassical Marxism,” or @NMarxism. @NMarxism is a deeply satirical Twitter project, which deploys Modern Monetary Theory and some very dark humor to critique the neoclassical economics and neoliberal assumptions that unconsciously organize a lot of present leftist discourse. Our mystery guest agreed to speak with us out of charac...
MMT & the Art of Social Practice with Vienne Chan (Live)
November 15, 2019 14:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this special live episode of Money on the Left, artist and researcher Vienne Chan joins us to talk art, politics, and money—and how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) reconfigures the boundaries between all three. Recorded at the Third Annual International Conference on Modern Monetary Theory held at Stony Brook University, our conversation focuses specifically on Vienne’s recent efforts to combine MMT principles with diagrammatic visual design to fundamentally reimagine how to build and sustai...
No Depression in Heaven with Alison Collis Greene
October 15, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBIn this episode of Money on the Left, we speak with historian Alison Collis Greene about her book No Depression in Heaven with an eye toward contemporary debates around the Green New Deal. Subtitled The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, Greene's book critiques what she calls the “myth of the redemptive depression” which, particularly in the American south, eroded the legacy of the original New Deal by affirming regressive fantasies of self-help ...
Money Politics before the New Deal with Jakob Feinig
August 30, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBJakob Feinig, assistant professor of human development at Binghamton University, joins us to discuss the history of political organizing and activism around money in the United States, from the pre-Revolutionary period to the New Deal era. Characterized alternately by periods of widespread “silencing” and mass mobilization, the history of money politics that Feinig documents in his research has much to tell us about the present and future of the modern money movement. For more about the hist...
The Modern Money Movement with Andrés Bernal
August 15, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBWe are joined by Andrés Bernal, policy advisor to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and doctoral student at the New School for Public Engagement, Division of Policy Management and Environment. We speak with Bernal about his history with political organizing and the critical role he has come to play in the modern money movement, including the struggle for a Green New Deal. He also sketches out his dissertation project, which focuses on the Green New Deal as a site of collective action, political commu...
Inflation & the Politics of Pricing w/ Nathan Tankus
June 19, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBIn this episode, we talk with Nathan Tankus, Research Director of the Modern Money Network, and Research Fellow at the Clarke Business Law Institute at Cornell Law School. Nathan recently co-authored an opinion piece in the Financial Times with Scott Fullwiler and former MoL guest Rohan Gray about MMT’s position on the causes of inflation Link to the piece: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/03/01/1551434402000/An-MMT-response-on-what-causes-inflation/ In the conversation, we ask Nathan to...
Colored Property & State Debt w/ David Freund
May 16, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBOn this episode, we talk with David Freund, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. David is the author of Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America, an award-winning book that tracks how the language of racial exclusion was re-coded in terms of markets, property, and citizenship in the post-World War II era. Throughout the conversation, David speaks to his research on the history of public policy and economic ideology in the United St...
Imagining the Green New Deal w/ AOC advisor Robert Hockett
April 17, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBIn this episode, we speak with Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. At Cornell, Hockett teaches and writes about organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics. He’s also worked as a fellow for the Century Foundation and as a consultant to a number of international financial institutions and state legislatures. We talk with Bob about his role in crafting the Green New Deal Resolution, his conception of finance as a franchise, and his experience ...
Confronting Monetary Imperialism in Francophone Africa w/ Ndongo Samba Sylla
March 15, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBNdongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist and Research and Programme manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Sylla is also the author of many articles and three books, including the recently published L’Arme Invisible de la Francafrique, or “The Invisible Weapon of Franco-African Imperialism.” In that book, Sylla and coauthor Fanny Pigeaud lay out a comprehensive case against the CFA Franc, a neocolonial currency union that presently constrains the ...
Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender w/ Julie Mell
February 15, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBOn this episode, we talk to Julie Mell, an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University and author of the two volume book, The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender. In The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, Mell marshals previously untapped primary sources to upend the common historical narrative regarding the role of Jewish moneylenders in the development of the modern economy. On Mell’s reading, the prevailing understanding of the medieval Jewish moneylender-...
Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender with Julie Mell
February 15, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBOn this episode, we talk to Julie Mell, an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University and author of the two volume book, The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender. In The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, Mell marshals previously untapped primary sources to upend the common historical narrative regarding the role of Jewish moneylenders in the development of the modern economy. On Mell’s reading, the prevailing understanding of the medieval Jewish moneylender-...
Direct Job Creation in America w/ Steven Attewell
January 17, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBIn this episode, we're joined by Steven Attewell, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies. His recent book, People Must Live By Work (University of Pennsylvania Press), examines the history of direct job creation programs from the depths of the Great Depression and debates over the Employment Act of 1946 to the War on Poverty and the Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978. Link to the book: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15862.ht...
Money & Power w/ Jamee Moudud
December 18, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBIn this episode, we’re joined by Jamee Moudud. A professor of economics at Sarah Lawrence College, Jamee draws on the tradition of critical legal studies to extend the constitutional theory of money to new historical and international contexts. He currently serves on the board of the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law. He is also associate editor for the Review of Keynesian Economics. You can check out some of his recent work, including a timely essay on tari...
Digital Money Beyond Blockchain w/ Rohan Grey
November 14, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBIn this episode, we’re joined by Rohan Grey, President of the Modern Money Network, Director of the National Jobs for All Coalition, Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and JSD student at Cornell Law school. Our conversation is dedicated to Rohan’s current work on the political, economic, and cultural implications of money’s digital future. Rohan's report on digital fiat money: https://bit.ly/2K4els2 Twitter: @rohangrey Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/...
Poor People's Campaign - June 23, 2018
October 26, 2018 04:00 - 52 minutes - 24.3 MBIn this special episode, we offer a montage of interviews, songs, and speeches recorded during the Poor People’s Campaign’s June 23 rally on the National Mall and march on the US Capitol. To learn more about the 21st Century Poor People’s Campaign, visit www.poorpeoplescampaign.org. Link to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure