Charalampos Fytros
The valuation of insurance liabilities has traditionally been dealt with by actuaries, who closely monitored underlying illiquid features
Charalampos Fytros
The valuation of insurance liabilities has traditionally been dealt with by actuaries, who closely monitored underlying illiquid features
Onur Özgöde
Why does the Federal Reserve bail banks out in violation of a core principle of free-market capitalism: private gain–private loss?
Danielle D'Onfro
The rise of cloud computing has dramatically changed how consumers and firms store their belongings. Property that owners once managed directly now exists primarily on infrastructure maintained by intermediaries.
CUHK LAW Greater China Legal History Seminar Series- ‘The History of Central Banking in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Singapore’ by Ms. Lillian Cheung, Prof. Chao Xi & Prof. Christian Hofmann (Online)
Call for Submissions — Law and Political Economy Writing Prize
Alden Young
The three decades between 1989 and 2019, when the National Salvation regime of Islamists and the military ruled Sudan, are now frequently remembered by international and Sudanese policymakers, politicians, intellectuals, and business elites as “lost decades” or “decades of solitude”
Peter Conti-Brown & David A. Wishnick
The Federal Reserve (Fed) regularly faces novel challenges to its broad statutory mandates. Often, these challenges—from financial crises to pandemics to climate change—raise a critical question.
Abbye Atkinson
For the last fifty years, Congress has valorized the act of borrowing money as a catalyst for equality, embracing the proposition that equality can be bought with a loan.
L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan
In this paper, we use the Modern Money Theory framework to analyze whether government debt (and deficits) in a country with its own sovereign currency presents a problem.
Mehrsa Baradaran
The financial system is unequal and exclusionary even as it is supported, funded, and subsidized by public institutions.
The Modern Money Network Humanities Division (MMNHD) is thrilled to launch Moneyontheleft.org, a new space for collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multimedia engagement with progressive political economy.
Money on the Left Podcast: Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan
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
Ester Barinaga
The financial crisis of 2008 resulted, among other, on a popular awareness that the monetary system was not working for the interest of the many.
Dan Awry & Kathryn Judge
This article argues that there is a fundamental mismatch between the nature of finance and current approaches to financial regulation.
2021-22 postdoc at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies
Cambridge University | Center for the Study of Global Human Movement Webinar (11 December): In Conversation: Book talk with Albena Azmanova
Contributors: John Crawford, Morgan Ricks, Lev Menand, Aaron Klein, Robert Hockett, Abbye Atkinson, Leonidas Zelmanovitz, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Sheila Bair, James McAndrews, Yesha Yadav, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Mehrsa Baradaran, Christopher Giancarlo, Saule T. Omarova, and Nakita Q. Cuttino.
November 19, 2020
Saule T. Omarova, Cornell Law School
The COVID pandemic gave a renewed sense of urgency to the idea of offering every American household and business a free digital-dollar deposit account
Taming Capitalism before its Triumph: Author meets critics online - Nov 17
Searching for panelists for a panel on the political economy of commodity money (March 11-14, 2021)
Nov 9 | “Capitalism on Edge: on Radical Change without Crisis, Revolution, or Utopia" (book talk)
Nov 9 | Online | Aaron Jakes - Egypt's Occupation | Book Launch & Roundtable
The Third Conference on Law and Macroeconomics is taking place tomorrow!
The CMS Colloquium Series Livestreamed, Thursday @ 5pm - “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”, Lana Swartz
October 6, 2020
Abbye Atkinson, Berkeley Law
To the extent that “banking [is] the business model of money creation,”[1] it is difficult to conceive of it in truly humanistic terms.
October 16, 2020
Leonidas Zelmanovitz and Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Calls for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to consider a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) gained steam after the release last year of a white paper by Facebook and associates
September 28, 2020
Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School
One fruitful way of thinking about money is simply as ‘that which pays’ in a payments system or ‘that which counts’ in a system of transaction-associated value accounting.
September 25, 2020
K-Sue Park, Georgetown Law
One of the principal insights and analytical charges presented by scholars of racial capitalism is that racism makes money.
September 1, 2020
James McAndrews, TNB USA Inc., and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center
The Center for Responsible Lending reported in June 2020 that U.S. banks collected over $11 billion in overdraft fees annually
August 27, 2020
Sarah Bloom Raskin, Duke University
My children couldn’t quite wrap their heads around the scene: a long line of cars snaking across a vast parking lot, inching slowly toward the food bank’s delivery window.
Bruno Meyerhof Salama, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
In spite of its name, economic analysis of law is mostly unconcerned with money and markets. In a recently published book.
August 18, 2020
Aaron Klein, Brookings Institution
The financial response to the Covid crisis demonstrated the inability of the federal government to rapidly get money to people during times of crisis.
August 10, 2020
Morgan Ricks, Vanderbilt University John Crawford, University of California Hastings College of the Law Lev Menand, Columbia Law School
In 1989 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System came out against the “basic banking” legislation that Congress
Author: Lev Menand & Morgan Ricks
August 3, 2020
Sannoy Das, Harvard Law School
In this brief post, I attempt to summarize the main themes that emerged from the Just Money roundtable on banking. In ten blog posts between
July 28, 2020
Peter James Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles
When discussions arose concerning the potential redesign of the US twenty-dollar bill, with the visage of Andrew Jackson replaced by an image of abolitionist Harriet Tubman
June 29, 2020
Sannoy Das, Harvard Law School
The Just Money roundtable was convened to analyze policy responses, emerging mostly from monetary authorities, to the economic dislocations that occurred or became imminent as the coronavirus crisis hit every corner of the globe.
Virtual Roundtable— "Making Money American: The Monetary Regimes of the New United States"
D-DebtCon Happening This Week!
Justmoney.org is passing along the below announcement from our colleagues at the Financial History Network
The LPE Project is Hiring a Deputy Director!
July 3, 2020
David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University
In the longer piece on which this one follows, I do what I can to show that nearly all of the claims for cryptocurrency and blockchain are false, and most are based on outright fraud.
July 17, 2020
Michael Ralph, New York University
In the past few months, longstanding critiques about mass incarceration and police abuse have pushed a plea familiar to abolitionists into commercial journalism and casual conversation.
Saule Omarova, Cornell Law School
This article examines fintech as a systemic force disrupting the currently dominant technocratic paradigm of financial regulation.
Author: Christian Gelleri
June 15, 2020
Destin Jenkins, University of Chicago
In his 1983 classic, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Manning Marable asked
Perry G Mehrling, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Perry Mehrling talks to Boston Economic Club June 3, 2020 about the Coronavirus Crisis.
Baker Library Collection of American Currency
Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California Irvine
The New Deal created a separate and unequal credit market—high-interest, non-bank, installment lenders in black ghettos
June 12, 2020
Gili Vidan, Harvard University
In 2017, Americans wanted to know “what is Bitcoin?”