Monica Prasad, John N. Robinson III, Joy Milligan, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Nic John Ramos, David M.P. Freund, Stacy Seicshnaydre, Abbye Atkinson, Brian Highsmith, David Stein, Brittany Alston
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Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City”
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Summer 2021 - A Symposium on:
A Symposium on Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
A. Atkinson, Making Public Debt a Public Good
September 16, 2021
A. Atkinson
Public debt in the form of municipal bonds permits municipalities to survive and to grow.
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A. Atkinson, Making Public Debt a Public Good”
Current Scholarship
Commodifying Marginalization
Abbye Atkinson
Once pillars of American social provision, public pension funds now rely significantly on private investment to meet their chronically underfunded promises to America’s workers.
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Commodifying Marginalization”
Current Scholarship
Borrowing Equality
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.
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Borrowing Equality”
Summer 2020
Public Money: Digital Dollars? Fed Acccounts? Postal Banking?
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.
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Public Money: Digital Dollars? Fed Acccounts? Postal Banking?”
Roundtable: Public Money
A. Atkinson, On Equity within Public-Sector Banking Initiatives
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.
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A. Atkinson, On Equity within Public-Sector Banking Initiatives”