(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2025)ISSN 2833-051X (Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and TrustBy Rob Hawkes Abstract This article argues that the neochartalist perspective on money opens up new ways of understanding trust. While neochartalism has, on occasion, been interpreted as a departure from the view that…
Modern Money & the Black University Concept
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2024)ISSN 2833-051X Modern Money & the Black University Concept By Andrew J. Douglas Abstract Recent efforts to rethink the university as a site of monetary experimentation share several affinities with the “Black University” movement of the mid-twentieth century. Today’s “Uni” currency project, one of the…
Money’s Place: Science Fiction, Realism & MMT in The Ministry for the Future
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2023)ISSN 2833-051X Money’s Place: Science Fiction, Realism & Modern Monetary Theory in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the FutureBy Maxximilian Seijo Abstract Kim Stanley Robinson’s speculative near-future novel Ministry for the Future (2020) centers the heterodox political economy of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to…
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 WorkBy 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…