We are delighted to announce Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0. The Conference will be held at two sites in order to maximize participation while minimizing carbon impacts: Cambridge, MA (Harvard Law School, June 15-17, 2023) and Hamburg, Germany (the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and THE NEW INSTITUTE, June 15-16, 2023). The Conference is open to all students of money, credit, and finance, the monetary system, and the modern economy, including members of the public. We will offer robust online access and we encourage distant participants
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Live Zoom Panel - Wednesday, April 19, 11 am - 12 pm ET
Reminder: Sociological Perspectives on the Bank Failures of 2023
Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, as well as the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse, banks are back in the headlines. This panel considers recent events in light of the flowering of sociological research since the
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Live Zoom Panel - Wednesday, April 19, 11 am - 12 pm ET
Sociological Perspectives on the Bank Failures of 2023
Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, as well as the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse, banks are back in the headlines. This panel considers recent events in light of the flowering of sociological research since the
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Virtual Teach-In: The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank
Nadav Orian Peer, Associate Professor, Colorado Law, and Just Money Editor - March 15, 2023
Recording Available: "Virtual Teach-In: The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank."
JustMoney editor Nadav Orian Peer discussed the conditions that led to SVB's failure; policy response by regulators; and broader economic context.
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Scrap the Bank Deposit Insurance Limit
Opinion | by Lev Menand and Morgan Ricks - Washington Post - March 15, 2023
The time has come for Congress to scrap the $250,000 cap on deposit insurance coverage, strengthen regulatory oversight accordingly and charge banks much more for operating a government-backed deposit business.
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New Book by Joseph Vogl
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New Symposium on “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities” by Ricks, Sitaraman, Welton, and Menand
Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand
Networks, Platforms, and Utilities (NPU) is the first entirely new casebook integrating NPU law in a quarter century—and the first with some temporal distance from the deregulatory movement of the late twentieth century. The book thus contributes to larger intellectual shifts in the academy and public policy.
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New Book Edited by Benjamin Wilson
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The Banking & Finance Law Review (BFLR) is Hiring a Fintech Fellow!
The Banking & Finance Law Review is pleased to announce the second annual FinTech Fellowship, which gives doctoral candidates insight into the editorial process of scholarly journal publication in this cutting-edge field of law. Application deadline May 1st, 2023.
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Reminder: Intersections of finance and society 2023 CFP closes May 1!
Reminder: Call for Papers for Intersections of finance and society 2023 will close on May 1st. Contributors are expressly invited to propose and debate existing and novel solutions for improving financial stability, expanding fintech inclusion, mitigating climate breakdown, and tackling the inequalities associated with financialisation.
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Finance and Society Network CFP: Intersections of finance and society 2023 in Brussels (September 14-15)
Call for Papers open for Intersections of finance and society 2023, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. Contributors are expressly invited to propose and debate existing and novel solutions for improving financial stability, expanding fintech inclusion, mitigating climate breakdown, and tackling the inequalities associated with financialisation.
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UNSW Sydney Law and Justice is Hiring a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
UNSW Sydney Law and Justice is Hiring a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, with an application deadline of February 13th, 2023.
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The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project is Hiring an Academic Fellow
The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project seeks to hire an Academic Fellow to play both a scholarly and organizational role, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2023.
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Assistant Professor in Finance and Globalization at the University of California, Santa Barbara
The Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2023. The Department is looking for individuals with expertise in Finance in relation to Globalization.
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New Casebook by Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand
Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy
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Special Issue from Economy and Society: Recentering Central Banks
Nathan Coombs, University of Edinburgh, and Matthias Thiemann, Sciences Po
This special issue argues that to make sense of the increased prominence of central banks after the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic requires interrogating the sources of and limits to their governmental power.
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New Book by Dave Elder-Vass
Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth
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Financialization, Structural Power, and the Global Financial Crisis for Europe’s Core and Periphery
Nina Eichacker, University of Rhode Island
As Eurozone governments consider how to respond to crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic going forward, policies that more equitably support governments rescuing domestic financial actors should be considered in tandem with broader financial regulations of structurally important economic institutions.
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Financialization, Structural Power, and the Global Financial Crisis for Europe’s Core and Periphery”
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Uncomfortable knowledge in central banking: Economic expertise confronts the visibility dilemma
Jacqueline Best, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
How do central bankers cope with the uncomfortable fact that there are significant limits to their expertise without losing authority?
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Capitalizing Africa – High finance from below
James Christopher Mizes and Kevin P. Donovan, Université Paris-Dauphine and University of Edinburgh
In this issue, our contributors explore new modes of popular and professional reasoning about finance in Africa by Africans, and their specific struggles over how to know, value and manage capital.
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Register Now for 5th Conference on Law & Macroeconomics (October 20-21, 2022, virtual)
Fifth Conference on Law and Macroeconomics (Virtual)
Organized by:
The Wharton School, Georgetown Law and IIEL, Queen Mary University of
London (CCLS), Tulane, Yale Law School
October 20, 2022: 10:00 AM to 1:45 PM EDT (3:00 PM to 6:45…
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Zoom Register Now for Conference on African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty ‘Facing the socio-ecological crisis: Delinking and the question of Global Reparations’ (10/25-10/28)
Zoom Register Now for Conference on African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty 'Facing the socio-ecological crisis: Delinking and the question of Global Reparations'
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Financial dominance: why the ‘market maker of last resort’ is a bad idea and what to do about it
Carolyn Sissoko, University of the West of England
This paper sets forth a framework modeling the traditional ‘banking approach’ to central bank liquidity provision and advocates a return to it. These reforms must be accompanied by a clear policy that in the event that any bank requires re-capitalization by the government, existing shareholder interests will be wiped out, and ownership will be transferred to the government.
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Battling Institutional Debt at HBCUs
Andrew J. Douglas, Morehouse College
The article underscores an increasingly important point: all members of a campus community ought to be deeply concerned about institutional debt. A campaign against institutional debt at HBCUs could be a powerful initiative of the AAUP’s Committee on Historically Black Institutions and Scholars of Color, and it could help to draw more HBCU faculty into the push for a New Deal for Higher Education.
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New Book by Jakob Feinig
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NYU Assistant Professor of Capitalism and Political Economy
The Gallatin School of Independent Study at New York University (NYU) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position with a focus on capitalism and political economy. The position will start on September 1, 2023.
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The Key to Value (2.0): The Debate Over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money
Christine Desan, Harvard Law School
Neoclassical and credit approaches to money represent dramatically different theories of value. According to the way money is created, individuals will not be equally situated in the process that generates prices.
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The Key to Value (2.0): The Debate Over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money”
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New Book by Trevor Jackson
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Banking on a Curve: How to Restore the Community Reinvestment Act
Peter Conti-Brown, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Brookings Institution; and Brian D. Feinstein, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 has failed to meaningfully reduce the prevalence of “banking deserts” across lower-income communities or to reduce the racial wealth gap. As a corrective, banks should be graded on a curve, which would enable the CRA to fulfill its promise: to expand access to credit, spur investment in overlooked areas, and combat racial inequities through the financial system.
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Towards a sociology of state investment funds? sovereign wealth funds and state-business relations in Saudi Arabia
Alexis Montambault Trudelle, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
What kind of power relations are maintained or established in the process of sovereign wealth funds development? This article contributes to rentier state debates and broader political economy scholarship by showing how state investment funds hinge on ancillary networks of social institutions, often generated from ingrained formal and informal interactions between states and society.
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The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy
Sebastian Diessner, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands
This article argues that policy-makers’ non-expert or ‘folk’ ideas can affect policy outcomes in a way that challenges the assumption of economic policy-making being guided by expert ideas emanating from the realm of economics and other sciences.
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Financialized savings in public water governance: An illustrative case study in the arid American West
Christopher Gibson, California State University, Fullerton
How does financialization of the economy impact public governance of natural resources? This article interrogates the influence that financial markets have over public policy, showing that elected governance officials engage in the commodification of money, encouraging the further commodification of environmental resources.
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Financialized savings in public water governance: An illustrative case study in the arid American West”
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Sovereign Solvency as Monetary Power
Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima, University of Leeds School of Law
This article reconceptualizes sovereign insolvency from a money-centred perspective. Sovereign insolvencies are inherent to the asymmetric character of global liquidity, rather than solely the product of fiscal misfortunes or mismanagement. To correct those asymmetries, it is necessary to reset the international monetary system.
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Register by Friday 9/2 for ClassCrits XIII Conference: Unlocking Race & Class For Just Transitions
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Job Posting
Lecturer in Banking and Finance (Teaching & Research)
Salary: £43,069 to £53,625 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance (Grade 5)
Location: Lincolns Inn Fields
Closing date: 5 September 2022
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Heilbroner Center Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Capitalism Studies
The EAEPE – INET – APPEAL Summer School is open to PhD students and early-career researchers working in particular in the field of institutional and evolutionary analysis, with a special focus this year on labour economics and welfare, and the impact of Covid-19.
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“Labour and Welfare in the Post COVID-19 Era” Summer School July 4-8 2022 at the University of Rome; application deadline June 6th!
The EAEPE – INET – APPEAL Summer School is open to PhD students and early-career researchers working in particular in the field of institutional and evolutionary analysis, with a special focus this year on labour economics and welfare, and the impact of Covid-19.
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“Labour and Welfare in the Post COVID-19 Era” Summer School July 4-8 2022 at the University of Rome; application deadline June 6th!”
Announcement from Massachusetts Public Banking Coalition
Please RSVP for Massachusetts Public Banking Coalition Meeting Friday, May 13 at 9:00am via Zoom
Please click here to RSVP, and feel free to circulate this invitation to anyone you'd like.
Public Bank Supporters; Ujima Grassroots Partners; Ujima Partners; Ujima Peers:
You are invited to attend a Massachusetts Public Banking Coalition Meeting
Friday, May 13 at 9:00am via Zoom.
This meeting will build on the good news we received late last week that our bill has received an additional extension to May 31.
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New Book by Lev Menand
The Fed Unbound Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
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Economics & Finance—Finance 3.0 on April 13, 2022
Please join Project Syndicate for “Finance 3.0” - April 13th!
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Economics & Finance—Finance 3.0 on April 13, 2022”
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Technopolitics of Monetary Management—Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on April 8, 2022
Please join the New School for their next Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar Event, “Technopolitics of Monetary Management” - on Zoom, April 8!
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Technopolitics of Monetary Management—Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on April 8, 2022”
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Virtual Economics Seminar: Mariana Mazzucato presenting Mission Economy, March 22nd from 12:30-2:00 PM EST!
Join the New School for Social Research for an Economics Seminar with Professor Mariana Mazzucato presenting her new book, Mission Economy.
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Virtual Economics Seminar: Mariana Mazzucato presenting Mission Economy, March 22nd from 12:30-2:00 PM EST!”
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THE INDICATOR: The curious case of odious debt
Check out NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money Episode: “The Curious Case of Odious Debt” from March 8, 2022.
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Colonial Genealogies of Political Economy: Common Currencies, Hidden Hierarchies—Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on March 4, 2022
Please join the New School for their next Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar Event, “Colonial Genealogies of Political Economy: Common Currencies, Hidden Hierarchies” - on Zoom, March 4!
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Colonial Genealogies of Political Economy: Common Currencies, Hidden Hierarchies—Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on March 4, 2022”
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Apply for the 2022-2023 Fellowship Program at The New School’s Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy – Applications Due Feb. 20, 2022
Apply for a 2022-2023 Fellowship at The New School’s Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy by 2/20/22
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Apply for the 2022-2023 Fellowship Program at The New School’s Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy – Applications Due Feb. 20, 2022”
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Categorizing Currencies: Making Subjects, Making Money—Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on Feb. 18, 2022
Please join the New School for their second Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar Event of 2022, “Categorizing Currencies: Making Money, Making Subjects” - on Zoom, Feb. 18!
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Categorizing Currencies: Making Subjects, Making Money—Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on Feb. 18, 2022”
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YSI Financial Stability Working Group: Money View Symposium on Feb. 11-13, 2022! Keynote by Perry Mehrling 2/11 at 2 pm EST!
YSI Financial Stability Working Group is holding a Symposium on Perry Mehrling’s Money View on Feb. 11-13, 2022! Register to attend the Zoom Symposium for free!
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YSI Financial Stability Working Group: Money View Symposium on Feb. 11-13, 2022! Keynote by Perry Mehrling 2/11 at 2 pm EST!”
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Université de Lyon: Building Bridges Around David Graeber’s Legacy on July 7-9, 2022 – Call for Papers due Feb. 15, 2022
Université de Lyon‘s “Building Bridges Around David Graeber’s Legacy” Conference July 7-9, 2022. Call for proposal submissions due Feb. 15, 2022.
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Université de Lyon: Building Bridges Around David Graeber’s Legacy on July 7-9, 2022 – Call for Papers due Feb. 15, 2022”
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Department of Historical and Heritage Studies Seminar—Monetary Transitions: Currencies, Colonialism, and African Societies on Jan. 26, 2022
Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (University of Pretoria) seminar scheduled for today at 9 AM EST.
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Department of Historical and Heritage Studies Seminar—Monetary Transitions: Currencies, Colonialism, and African Societies on Jan. 26, 2022”