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Category: Christine Desan

Just Money Profiles
Christine Desan, Managing Editor

Christine Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the author of Making Money:  Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2014). The book argues that a radical transformation in the
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Christine Desan, Managing Editor”

Current Scholarship
Money’s Design Elements: Debt, Liquidity, and the Pledge of Value from Medieval Coin to Modern “Repo”

Christine A. Desan

Like the law of payments, the legal design of money shapes the economy itself.
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Money’s Design Elements: Debt, Liquidity, and the Pledge of Value from Medieval Coin to Modern “Repo””

Announcement
Christine Desan Joins the Money View Reading Group

YSI Webinar - Making Money Book Discussion with Christine Desan
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Christine Desan Joins the Money View Reading Group”

Current Scholarship
Money on the Left Podcast: Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan

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
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Money on the Left Podcast: Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan”

Current Scholarship
The Key to Value: 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.
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The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money”

Policy Spotlight
The Constitution and the Fed after the COVID-19 Crisis

Authors: Christine Desan and Nadav Orian Peer
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The Constitution and the Fed after the COVID-19 Crisis”

Current Scholarship
[Recall This Buck I]: Chris Desan on Making Money

Recall this Book Podcast Talks with Christine Desan

This is the first of several RTB episodes about the history of money.
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[Recall This Buck I]: Chris Desan on Making Money”

Banking: Intermediation or Money Creation
C. Desan, The Power of Paradigms in Histories of Economic Development

March 12, 2020

Christine Desan, Harvard Law School

An iconic article published by Douglass North and Barry Weingast in 1989 identified the growth of banking
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C. Desan, The Power of Paradigms in Histories of Economic Development”

Winter 2020
Banking: Intermediation or Money Creation

Contributors: Morgan Ricks, Marc Lavoie, Robert Hockett, Saule Omarova, Michael Kumhof, Zoltan Jakab, Paul Tucker, Charles Kahn, Daniel Tarullo, Stephen Marglin, Howell Jackson and Christine Desan, Sannoy Das
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Banking: Intermediation or Money Creation”

Course Overview
The Legal Architecture of Globalization: Money, Debt and Development – Overview

Harvard Law School, Spring 2022
Professor Christine Desan

Course Syllabus [pdf]

Course Description:

            An integrated political economy now covers much of the globe.  This course focuses on the monetary structure of that phenomenon as a matter…
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Course Materials
Constitutional Law of Money – Materials

Professor Christine Desan (profile)
Harvard Law School – Fall 2017

Course Overview (Description and Syllabus)

I. Governing at the Material Level

Class 1: The Dollar as a Democratic Medium
Readings Notes and Discussion

Class 2: Money:…
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Constitutional Law of Money – Materials”

Course Overview
Constitutional Law of Money – Fall 2021

Professor Christine Desan (profile)
Harvard Law School – Fall 2021

Syllabus

Course Description:

According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” is the clause allocating authority over money. And for good reason:Every
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Constitutional Law of Money – Fall 2021”

Course Materials
The Legal Architecture of Globalization: Money, Debt, and Development – Materials

Harvard Law School, Spring 2019
Professor Christine Desan

Introduction and Overview

Class 01: Money, Debt, and Development: Challenges and Change in a Globalizing World
Reading, Background and Discussion

I. A Baseline: Money and its Design…
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The Legal Architecture of Globalization: Money, Debt, and Development – Materials”

Podcast
MDM 2018: Welcoming Remarks

Podcast: Christine Desan opens the first Money as a Democratic Medium conference.

Christine Desan, Harvard Law School

Recognizing money and credit as public projects exposes issues of democratic purpose and possibility. In a novel focus,
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MDM 2018: Welcoming Remarks”

Podcast
MDM 2018: History and Theory

If money is a complex collective enterprise, protean in design possibilities both in practice and conception, then it has a history of change, carries profound moral significance, and lays a rightful claim to the concern of citizens and political
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MDM 2018: History and Theory”

Podcast
MDM 2018- Wrapping Up

We conclude with brief comments from participants on a small number of core questions, including (1) what themes emerged most powerfully across the conference sessions, and (2) what steps can we take to ensure that this conversation continues
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