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Rising Tides Sink All Boats

The Fed’s aggressive monetary austerity is pushing rival currencies lower… Continue reading →

September 21, 2022

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Austin Credits with Jonathan Wilson (White Paper and Podcast Interview)

For this special episode of Superstructure, cohosts Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) and Andrés Bernal (@andresintheory) are joined by Jonathan Wilson (@DeficitOwl24601) to discuss his new white paper, “Proposal for a Local Currency Issued by the City of Austin,” which proposes a complementary currency for the city of Austin called Austin Credits. Jonathan’s proposal contributes to a developing… Continue reading →

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

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Monetary Austerity as Social Conflict

By David M. Fields Monetary austerity, like fiscal austerity, is a top-down offensive. A monetary assault on working people is being waged in the name of fighting inflation. In similar fashion to the demagoguery that surrounds government expenditure cuts that lead to significant losses in social provisioning, a political climate of inflation hysteria has engulfed the US… Continue reading →

July 13, 2022

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On the political force of MMT

From a non-sovereign perspective By Andris ŠuvajevsA couple of days ago, the British economics commentator, Grace Blakeley, called people who advocate Modern Monetary Theory “naïve.” This was following a public radio appearance earlier that same day, in which she described tax breaks for the wealthy as taking money directly from those who claim public benefits.… Continue reading →

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

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The Visual Cliff: Eleanor Gibson & the Origins of Affordance

By Erica Robles Anderson & Scott Ferguson Originally presented at Hidden Histories: Gender in Design, Design History Society Seminar, April 14, 2022. Part I: TED Talks and Teapots In a 2003 TED Talk titled “Three Ways Design Makes You Happy,” Donald Norman announced that “The new me is beauty.” Norman – a professor, design firm… Continue reading →

April 19, 2022September 20, 2022

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The Unfathomable Cruelty of Biden’s Latest Afghanistan Executive Order

By Mitch Green Originally published to Substack Biden has decided to steal raid $7 billion of Da Afghanistan Bank reserves currently frozen by US financial institutions. The motivation for this guileless heist is two fold: Set aside $3.5 billion for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan Make available $3.5 billion for claimants in ongoing 9/11 survivor’s lawsuits The grotesqueness… Continue reading →

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022

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Rising Tides Sink All Boats

The Fed’s aggressive monetary austerity is pushing rival currencies lower… Continue reading →

September 21, 2022

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Debt Cancel Culture: Media Strategies for Democratic Coalitions (ft. Erica Robles-Anderson, @fstflofscholars)

Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) is joined by Erica Robles-Anderson (@fstflofscholars) for an examination of the Biden Administration’s public communications around student debt relief. If Trump-era communication was characterized by direct broadcasts from the Tweeter-in-Chief, this new style uses public policy to strategically hail online discussion. Erica and Will read “This You?” debtor discourse as an example… Continue reading →

September 4, 2022

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Performing Hard Money with Frederic Heine

Frederic Heine joins Money on the Left to discuss his recent essay, “Performing Hard Money: Monetary Policy, Metaphor and Masculinity in the Making of the EMU,” published this summer in the Journal of Cultural Economy. Heine is a university assistant at the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at Johannes Kepler University, Linz (Austria). In his… Continue reading →

September 1, 2022September 6, 2022

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Austin Credits with Jonathan Wilson (White Paper and Podcast Interview)

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022

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Superestructura: Latin America Edition

Money on the Left is thrilled to release English and Spanish transcripts from our Superstructure podcast with Daniel Rojas Medellin (@DanielRMed), now Coordinator of newly inaugurated President Gustavo Petro’s transition team (@petrogustavo), and Mexican economist Jesús Reséndiz Silva (@Tlacuachito). In the episode, co-hosts Andrés Bernal (@andresintheory) & Naty Smith (@orangeasm) speak with Medellin and Silva… Continue reading →

August 8, 2022August 9, 2022

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Cloudmoney with Brett Scott

Brett Scott joins Money on the Left to discuss his recently published book Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for our Wallets (Harper-Collins 2022). A committed advocate for financial heterodoxy, Scott grounds his perspicuous critique of “cloudmoney”–the conjoined efforts and outcomes of Big Finance and Big Tech’s drive to go “cashless”– in his anthropological training and work as… Continue reading →

August 1, 2022August 2, 2022

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Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice

In this special episode, Billy Saas, Maxximilian Seijo and Scott Ferguson announce the launch of the collective’s new scholarly journal: Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Click here for the journal’s inaugural publication, “Food, Money, and Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient and Equitable Communities of Work,” co-authored by Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid, and… Continue reading →

July 31, 2022August 1, 2022

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Food, Money & Democracy

Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2022)ISSN 2833-051X “Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work”By Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid & Max Sussman Abstract Coordination rights, or the right to coordinate, is an emerging concept in law and political economy that establishes who is… Continue reading →

July 31, 2022August 7, 2022

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Medium: Femme – 7 – Abortion (Part 1)

In the first of a three part series following the overturning of Roe v Wade, cohosts Naty (@orangeasm) and Charlotte (@moltopopulare) discuss the ongoing fight for abortion access and rights taking place in both the US and the rest of the world. Using the framework of reproductive justice, they contextualize abortion rights within a broader… Continue reading →

July 28, 2022

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Monetary Modernism

In this special episode of Money on the Left, the MotL Collective shares an audio recording from a conference panel titled, “Monetary Modernism.” Including papers by Scott Ferguson (University of South Florida), Rob Hawkes (Teesside University), and Maxximilian Seijo (University of California, Santa Barbara), the panel was presented at the Hopeful Modernisms conference organized by… Continue reading →

July 20, 2022

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Superstructure 33 – Mediation is the Fourth Estate

Analyzing recent events at The Washington Post, Will Beaman (@agoingaccount), Natalie Tabb (@orangeasm), and Maxximilian Seijo (@maxseijo) develop a theory of media accountability in which heterogeneous institutions and social infrastructures are variously implicated as political participants. Visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructure Music: “Yum” from “This Would Be Funny If It Were Happening To Anyone But… Continue reading →

July 18, 2022

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Superstructure: Bitcoin in El Salvador (NEW TRANSCRIPT!)

Ricardo Valencia joins co-hosts Andrés Bernal and Scott Ferguson to discuss recent protests against Bitcoin in El Salvador. Adopted as legal tender by the authoritarian President Nayib Bukele in September 2021, Bitcoin has become an emblem in El Salvador for U.S. corporate imperialism, public mismanagement, and anti-democratic rule. Whereas mainstream accounts of cryptocurrency tend to… Continue reading →

July 16, 2022September 15, 2022

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