Christine Desan, Harvard Law School
Neoclassical and credit approaches to money represent dramatically different theories of value.
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The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money”
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
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P. J. Hudson, Currency, Colonialism, and Monetary History from Below”
Contributors: Katharina Pistor, James McAndrews, Saule Omarova, Mark Blyth, Jamee Moudud, Elham Saeidinezhad, Dan Awrey, Fadhel Kaboub, Leah Downey, Virginia France, Lev Menand, Nadav Orian Peer, Robert Hockett, Carolyn Sissoko, Jens van 't Klooster, Oscar Perry Abello, and Gerald Epstein
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Special Edition: Money in the Time of Coronavirus”
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.
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S. Das, Roundtable Wrap-up”
Editors, Finance and Society
The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of vol. 6, no. 1 (2020).
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Just Published: Finance and Society, Vol. 6, No. 1”
Virtual Roundtable— "Making Money American: The Monetary Regimes of the New United States"
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Virtual Roundtable— “Making Money American: The Monetary Regimes of the New United States””
D-DebtCon Happening This Week!
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D-DebtCon Happening This Week!”
Justmoney.org is passing along the below announcement from our colleagues at the Financial History Network
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Launch of the Financial History Network and Webinar Series”
The LPE Project is Hiring a Deputy Director!
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The LPE Project is Hiring!”
Contributors: Bill Maurer, Lev Menand, Lana Swartz, J.S. Nelson, Benjamin Geva, Hilary Allen, David Golumbia, Finn Brunton, Gili Vidan, Marcelo De Castro Cunha Filho, Susan Silbey, John Haskell, Nathan Tankus, Katharina Pistor, and Joseph Sommer
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Virtual Currencies and the State”
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.
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D. Golumbia, Why Do We Keep Taking the Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Scam Seriously?”
Brian Gettler, University of Toronto
Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for
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Colonialism’s Currency: Money, State and First Nations in Canada, 1820-1950”
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.
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M. Ralph, Finance and Violence”
Ayca Zayim, Mount Holyoke College
Despite the consensus that the power of finance constraints central banks under financial globalization, the variation in their autonomy from market forces at the micro level of monetary policymaking remains underexplored.
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Inside the Black Box: Credibility and Situational Power of Central Banks”
Francois R. Velde, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
A collection of texts printed in early seventeenth-century Naples exemplifies the intersection between economic history and the history of thought.
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The Money Doctors of Seventeenth Century Naples”
Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht, University of Basel, Benjamin Geva, Osgoode Hall Law School, Seraina N. Gruenewald, Radbound University Nijmegen
The modern monetary system is controlled by the state and yet linked to private deposit banking. Monetary value held in deposits with commercial banks is known as ‘commercial bank money’ (CoBM).
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The ECB and € E-Banknotes”
L. Randall Wray, Bard College
Modern money theory (MMT) synthesizes several traditions from heterodox economics.
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The ‘Kansas City’ Approach to Modern Money Theory”
Vanessa Ogle, UC Berkeley
This article explores the question of what happened to European assets in the process of decolonization.
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‘Funk Money’: The End of Empires, The Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event”
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe & Adebayo Majekolagbe, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
To avoid cascading into a new regime of inequities, international investment law ("IIL") reform and investment-related measures under the international climate law (“ICL”) regime must center on climate justice and a nuanced interpretation of historical responsibility.
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International Investment Law and Climate Justice: The Search for a Just Green Investment Order”
Saule Omarova, Cornell Law School
This article examines fintech as a systemic force disrupting the currently dominant technocratic paradigm of financial regulation.
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Technology v Technocracy: Fintech as a Regulatory Challenge”
Perry G Mehrling, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Perry Mehrling talks to Boston Economic Club June 3, 2020 about the Coronavirus Crisis.
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Corona Crisis: Lessons of the Stress Test”
Baker Library Collection of American Currency
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Baker Library Collection of American Currency”
This Teaching Money in 20/21 page will enable us to find and share resources particularly relevant for the upcoming year. For example, we are especially curious about your teaching on:
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
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Jim Crow Credit”
June 12, 2020
Gili Vidan, Harvard University
In 2017, Americans wanted to know “what is Bitcoin?”
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G. Vidan, Decentralization: The Rise of a Hazardous Spec”
June 8, 2020
David M. P. Freund, University of Maryland
No doubt many readers here will be familiar with the role of the financial sector in shaping America’s peculiar history of racial inequality
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D. Freund, Money is productive, and racist institutions create money”
Peter Conti-Brown and David A. Wishnick
The speed at which money moves between people and businesses in the United States lags well behind international standards.
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Private Markets, Public Options, and the Payment System”
See Trivia Contest Answers and Winners!
Winners for the 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century,' directed by Justin Pemberton and featuring Thomas Piketty tickets.
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Steffan Murau, Joe Rini & Armin Haas
Little has contributed more to the emergence of today's world of financial globalization than the setup of the international monetary system.
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The evolution of the Offshore US-Dollar System: past, present and four possible futures”
May 12, 2020
Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School
In the last financial crisis millions of American home owners lost their homes while low-income renters were evicted en masse.
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D. Kennedy, The Fed Should Bail Out Low-Income Tenants and Not Just Banks and Landlords”
Critical finance studies ‘virtual’ conference, 2020
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Two economic sociology postdoctoral positions at King’s College London”
May 28, 2020
Michael O’Malley, George Mason University
American debates about money have always reflected our fundamental ambivalence about capitalism itself.
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M. O’Malley, Money and the Limits to Self Making”
May 21, 2020
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherts
Public education - K-12 and public higher education - have been hit hard financially by the Covid-19 Crisis.
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G. Epstein, Human Capital Bonds and Federal Reserve Support for Public Education: The Public Education Emergency Finance Facility (PEEFF)”
May 19, 2020
Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California Irvine
In order to achieve racial justice in America, we must confront and then thoroughly reject simplistic and ahistorical myths about markets and capitalism.
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M. Baradaran, How the Right Used Free Market Capitalism against the Civil Rights Movement”
Critical finance studies ‘virtual’ conference, 2020
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CFP: Critical finance studies ‘virtual’ conference, 2020”
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst
State and local finances, including for public education, have been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, leaving more than a $500 billion hole in their budgets.
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The Federal Reserve Public Education Emergency Finance Facility (PEEFF): A Proposal”
American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis, a website with data visualizations, oral histories, and policy analyses, is now live
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American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis”
Why is this Happening?: Saving the Economy with Saule Omarova
Why is this Happening? Podcast Talks with Saule Omarova
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Why is this Happening? with Chris Hayes: Saving the Economy with Saule Omarova”
Yakov Feygin & Dominik A. Leusder
The global dollar system has few national winners.
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The Class Politics of the Dollar System”
April 29, 2020
Oscar Perry Abello
For me, as a journalist covering the economies of cities across the United States, this journey started maybe four years ago.
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O.P. Abello, Getting to Know a Brave New Fed”
Jamee K. Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College
At the heart of the constitutional theory of money is the argument that money is central to governance.
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Analyzing the Constitutional Theory of Money: Governance, Power, and Instability”
April 28, 2020
Finn Brunton, NYU Steinhardt School
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F. Brunton, Virtual Money at the Edge-of-State”
Aditya Bamzai, University of Virginia School of Law
The disputed scope of the President’s authority to remove subordinates in the executive branch, and to direct them in the performance of their functions
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Tenure of Office and the Treasury: The Constitution and Control over National Financial Policy, 1787 to 1867”
April 22, 2020
Benjamin Geva, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
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B. Geva, Payment in Virtual Currency”