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Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva

Money on the Left - April 01, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Many of our listeners will be familiar with Dr. Tcherneva's contributions to MMT, especially her book, The Case for a Job Guarantee (Poli...

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The Alternative with Nick Romeo

Money on the Left - March 01, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Scott Ferguson and Billy Saas speak with New Yorker writer Nick Romeo about his exciting new book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, released in January 2024 with Public Affairs. Romeo’s The Alternative rebukes Margaret Thatcher’s infamous axiom that “there is no alternative” to neol...

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How can novels help us think about money ... and maybe even save the planet? (Guest Lecture)

Money on the Left - February 26, 2024 22:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Can novels and, by extension, other works of art help us to think about money and trust in new ways? Could embracing alternative perspectives on trust and money help us to avoid climate catastrophe? Rob Hawkes shares a new version of a talk previously presented at the Middlesbrough Institute of ...

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Resisting Predatory Finance w/ Raúl Carrillo (Recovered Audio!)

Money on the Left - February 02, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Money on the Left is proud to present recovered and remastered audio from our interview with Raúl Carrillo, published previously solely as a written transcript. The recording also includes a new  audio introduction in which Billy Saas reflects on the significance of our dialog with Carrillo for ...

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Modern Movie Theory: What We Do in the Shadows

Money on the Left - January 26, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) is joined by Robyn Ollett (@robynollett) and Rob Hawkes (@robbhawkes) to discuss What We Do in the Shadows. Citing Robyn’s interpretations of vampirism in The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film, the cohosts situate What W...

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Criticism LTD w/ Matt Seybold

Money on the Left - January 01, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Matt Seybold joins Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson to discuss the political economy of literary criticism from past to present, amateur to professional. Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature at Elmira College and Resident Scholar at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. In addition to...

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Teaching Economics with Benjamin Wilson

Money on the Left - December 01, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
We are joined again by Benjamin Wilson to discuss what it is like to teach Economics from a heterodox Modern Monetary Theory perspective in 2023. Wilson is associate professor and recently-minted chair of the department of Economics at SUNY, Cortland. In previous episodes, we have chatted with W...

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Teaching Economics w/ Benjamin Wilson

Money on the Left - December 01, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
We are joined again by Benjamin Wilson to discuss what it is like to teach Economics from a heterodox Modern Monetary Theory perspective in 2023. Wilson is associate professor and recently-minted chair of the department of Economics at SUNY, Cortland. In previous episodes, we have chatted with W...

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Monetary Foundations of Education w/ Larry Johnson

Money on the Left - November 01, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
This month, we speak with Larry Johnson, associate professor in the Social Foundations of Education Program at the University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg. In his pedagogy, Johnson focuses on the complex relationship between education, culture, and society with the goal of exploring polici...

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Power to the People w/ Sandeep Vaheesan

Money on the Left - October 25, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Sandeep Vaheesan (@sandeepvaheesan) joins Scott Ferguson on the Superstructure podcast to discuss the still-undecided political significance of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Their conversation focuses on Vaheesan’s article, “The IRA is Still Being Formed: An Episode in America’s Past Contai...

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Reparations for Black Americans w/ William A. Darity

Money on the Left - October 01, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 63 ratings
We’re joined this month by William A.( “Sandy”) Darity to discuss reparations for Black Americans. Sandy Darity is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke Univers...

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Money's Place (Journal Announcement!)

Money on the Left - September 05, 2023 21:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 63 ratings
In this brief podcast message, Scott Ferguson announces the publication of Maxximilian Seijo's peer-reviewed journal essay, "Money’s Place: Science Fiction, Realism & Modern Monetary Theory in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future," in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. ...

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The People’s Ledger w/ Saule Omarova

Money on the Left - September 02, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
This month, we discuss democratic possibilities for public finance with Saule Omarova, the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law at Cornell University and President Biden’s original nominee for Comptroller of the Currency. Omarova’s work on financial regulation and banking law has long informe...

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The People’s Ledger with Saule Omarova

Money on the Left - September 02, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
This month, we discuss democratic possibilities for public finance with Saule Omarova, the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law at Cornell University and President Biden’s original nominee for Comptroller of the Currency. Omarova’s work on financial regulation and banking law has long informe...

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Adventures in Quantumland w/ Ruth E. Kastner

Money on the Left - August 11, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Scott Ferguson is joined on the Superstructure podcast by Ruth E. Kastner, philosopher of physics and research associate at the University of Maryland. In their conversation, Ferguson and Kastner explore metaphysical resonances between Modern Monetary Theory’s approach to money and Kastner’s “Tr...

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Job Guarantee as Historical Struggle with David Stein (NEW TRANSCRIPT!)

Money on the Left - August 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
We are excited to rerelease our inaugural episode of Money on the Left alongside a brand new transcript. Conversation originally published on May 27, 2018 Money on the Left is the official podcast of Modern Money Network: Humanities Division (@moneyontheleft). In our inaugural episode, we c...

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Job Guarantee as Historical Struggle w/ David Stein (NEW TRANSCRIPT!)

Money on the Left - August 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
We are excited to rerelease our inaugural episode of Money on the Left alongside a brand new transcript. Conversation originally published on May 27, 2018 Money on the Left is the official podcast of Modern Money Network: Humanities Division (@moneyontheleft). In our inaugural episode, we c...

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The Ends of Freedom w/ Mark Paul

Money on the Left - July 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Mark Paul joins Money on the Left to discuss his new book, The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Paul is assistant professor in the Bloustein school of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. In his book, Paul sco...

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New Deal for Higher Ed w/ Jennifer Mittelstadt

Money on the Left - June 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
We’re joined by Jennifer Mittelstadt (@MittelstadtJen), professor of history at Rutgers University, to discuss her involvement with Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education. We speak with Mittelstadt about how Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education is organizing to address the most pre...

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Postmodern Money Theory! (Part 3)

Money on the Left - May 17, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
In the third installment of Superstructure’s “Postmodern Money Theory!” series, Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson wrap up their discussion of B.S. Johnson’s novella, Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry, which self-consciously weaves money and accounting into the very fabric of literary form. Rob and S...

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Bank of the People with Dan Rohde

Money on the Left - May 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Dan Rohde (@DanEricRohde) joins Scott Ferguson to discuss his Superstructure Vertical piece, “Bank of the People: History for Money’s Future.” The piece is based on a longer scholarly article titled, “The Bank of the People, 1835-1840: Law and Money in Upper Canada,” which is forthcoming from Os...

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On Paradox with Elizabeth S. Anker

Money on the Left - May 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Elizabeth S. Anker joins Money on the Left to discuss her provocative new book, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory (Duke University Press, 2022). Anker is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University and Professor of Law in the Cornell Law School. In On Paradox, Anker contends that faith i...

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Stayed on Freedom w/ Dan Berger

Money on the Left - April 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Money on the Left presents a public conversation with Dan Berger about his important new book, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey (Basic Books, 2023).  Berger’s Stayed on Freedom tells a new history of Black Liberation through the intertwined narrati...

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Postmodern Money Theory! (Part 2)

Money on the Left - March 25, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
In Part 2 of Superstructure’s “Postmodern Money Theory!” series, Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson explore B.S. Johnson’s postmodern novella, Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973), which self-consciously weaves money and accounting into the very fabric of literary form. Regarded as brokering a br...

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Mikhail Bakhtin Pt. 1 - Carnival Laughter & Grotesque Realism

Money on the Left - March 23, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) inaugurates the first of a lecture series on the work and ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin. Drawing parallels with right wing attacks on contemporary drag performance and ballroom traditions, Will discusses Bakhtin’s analysis of the Medieval carnival humor, its manifestation...

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Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste w/Rohan Grey (Bonus Episode)

Money on the Left - March 17, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
In this bonus episode of Money on the Left, Rohan Grey joins co-hosts Scott Ferguson and Billy Saas to assess the epistemological and political implications of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure. While orthodox economics and law tell us that economic crises are essentially matters of private ...

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Postmodern Money Theory! Part 1

Money on the Left - March 16, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Launching a new Superstructure series, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson to explore the ins and outs of “postmodernism.” Postmodernism is a heterogenous and disputed regime of aesthetics and theory that arose in the second half of the 20th century. Dated to midcentury, but promulgated as a discour...

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Postmodern Money Theory! (Part 1)

Money on the Left - March 16, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Launching a new Superstructure series, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson to explore the ins and outs of “postmodernism.” Postmodernism is a heterogenous and disputed regime of aesthetics and theory that arose in the second half of the 20th century. Dated to midcentury, but promulgated as a discour...

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Gramatneusiedl's Job Guarantee w/ Thomas Schwab

Money on the Left - March 01, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
This month, Money on the Left is joined by Thomas Schwab who, as mayor of Gramatneusiedl in Lower Austria, oversees a promising Job Guarantee pilot program. Seeking to eliminate long-term unemployment, the program guarantees public jobs to anyone in the community who seeks them. In our conversat...

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Money & Solidarity in Latin America w/ Andrés Arauz

Money on the Left - February 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 63 ratings
Money on the Left is joined by Andrés Arauz, recent candidate for the Ecuadorian presidency, heterodox economist, and outspoken advocate for the creation of the “Sur.” The Sur is a complementary currency for use in intra-Latin American trade and cooperation. Dismissed by New York Times blogger, ...

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