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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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.
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.
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.