Category: Current Scholarship

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This page contains abstracts and links to recent scholarship on monetary design and related issues. We also welcome posts to older scholarship that should be flagged.
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The shock of the old: How a local currency’s transition from digital to paper deepened monetary conscientization

Ester Barinaga

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The shock of the old: How a local currency’s transition from digital to paper deepened monetary conscientization”

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Conceptualizing resistance to the Americanization of finance in advanced economy states: The case of the Canadian-dollar system

Dustin Fergusson-Vaux

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Conceptualizing resistance to the Americanization of finance in advanced economy states: The case of the Canadian-dollar system”

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Obscene Finance

Amin Samman

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Obscene Finance”

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The First and Last Bank : Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons

Gustav Peebles

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The First and Last Bank : Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons”

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The Myth of Credit Card Competition

Benjamin Dinovelli

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The Myth of Credit Card Competition”

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Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

Benjamin Braun & Maximilian Düsterhöft

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Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks”

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Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria

Carla Coburger

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Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria”

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Sharing Risk The Path to Economic Well-Being for All

Patricia A. McCoy

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Sharing Risk The Path to Economic Well-Being for All”

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Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives: A Preface to the INET Edition

Thomas Ferguson

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Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives: A Preface to the INET Edition”

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The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection

Vijay Raghavan

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The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection”

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Rethinking currency internationalisation: offshore money creation and the EU’s monetary governance

Jens van ’t Klooster & Steffen Murau

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Rethinking currency internationalisation: offshore money creation and the EU’s monetary governance”

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Who is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada

Dan Rohde

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Who is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada”

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The Federal Reserve Exception

Benjamin Dinovelli

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The Federal Reserve Exception”

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Communication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easing

Will Bateman

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Communication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easing”

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Money as a Practice of Value: Creating a Respiratory System for Capital

Christine Desan

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Money as a Practice of Value: Creating a Respiratory System for Capital”

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Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower

Mary Bridges

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Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower”

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Digitizing the Fisc

Rohan Grey

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Digitizing the Fisc”

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Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: the End of Laissez Faire?

Jamee K. Moudud

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Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: the End of Laissez Faire?”

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Making Money Modern: Keynesianism and the Search for Noninflationary Growth

Martijn Konings

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Making Money Modern: Keynesianism and the Search for Noninflationary Growth”

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Understanding Modern Money Theory: Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies

L. Randall Wray

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Understanding Modern Money Theory: Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies”

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The Supreme Court’s Fed Carveout: An Initial Assessment

Lev Menand

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The Supreme Court’s Fed Carveout: An Initial Assessment”

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The Credit-Money Hierarchy: A Republican, Egalitarian Appraisal

Aaron James

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The Credit-Money Hierarchy: A Republican, Egalitarian Appraisal”

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Is all money credit and is all credit money? Lawson revisited

Geoffrey Ingham

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Is all money credit and is all credit money? Lawson revisited”

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JustMoney Online Workshop: Financial Market Infrastructure (Morgan Ricks)

June 12 (Thursday), 2025 at 11:00 am EST

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One System, Two Mandates: The Fed and Orderly Markets in Government Debt

Lev Menand & Josh Younger

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One System, Two Mandates: The Fed and Orderly Markets in Government Debt”

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The Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Credit Mandate

Benjamin Dinovelli

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The Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Credit Mandate”

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Engendering fiscal space: External debt, concessional finance, and special drawing rights

Ilene Grabel

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Engendering fiscal space: External debt, concessional finance, and special drawing rights”

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JustMoney Online Workshop: Climate Alignment for Banks (Orian Peer)

Nadav Orian Peer

On April 29 (Tuesday), 2025 at 10:00-11:00 pm EST (4:00-05:00 pm CEST)

Registration: https://forms.gle/GvXzieDoBUoFm4RL9

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Climate Alignment For Banks: The Stories That Numbers Tell

Nadav Orian Peer

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Climate Alignment For Banks: The Stories That Numbers Tell”

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Book Review: The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve

James K. Galbraith

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Book Review: The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve”

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Spread the Fed: Distributed Central Banking for Productive-Republican Finance

Robert C. Hockett

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Spread the Fed: Distributed Central Banking for Productive-Republican Finance”

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The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People

Martijn Konings

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The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People”

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Promise to Pay: The Politics and Power of Money in Early America

Katie A. Moore

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Promise to Pay: The Politics and Power of Money in Early America”

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Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters

Leah Downey

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Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters”

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Input for UN Finance for Development Elements Paper: Fostering a Global Public Development Bank Ecosystem for Sustainable Development and Climate Action

Thomas Marois, Ali Riza Güngen, Lavinia Steinfort & María José Romero

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Input for UN Finance for Development Elements Paper: Fostering a Global Public Development Bank Ecosystem for Sustainable Development and Climate Action”

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Climate Policy and the 2024 Election (Colorado Law, Mini Law School, Oct. 23, 2024)

Speakers: Nadav Orian Peer and Jacob Warren Carl

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Climate Policy and the 2024 Election (Colorado Law, Mini Law School, Oct. 23, 2024)”

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The Federal Reserve and the Constitution

Daniel K. Tarullo

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The Federal Reserve and the Constitution”

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The Bank of the People, 1835-1840: Law and Money in Upper Canada

Dan Rohde

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The Bank of the People, 1835-1840: Law and Money in Upper Canada”

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Public Banking as an Institutional Design Project

Saule T. Omarova

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Public Banking as an Institutional Design Project”

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Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control

Sean Vanatta

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Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control”

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Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet

Samantha Power & Leon Seefeld

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Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet”

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Money and Federalism

Dan Awrey

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Money and Federalism”

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Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future: Money Commons

Ester Barinaga Martín

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Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future: Money Commons”

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Corporate Climate Targets: Between Science and Climate Washing

Nadav Orian Peer

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Corporate Climate Targets: Between Science and Climate Washing”

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Tinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures: Kenyan local currencies in informal settlements

Ester Barinaga & María José Zapata Campos

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Tinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures: Kenyan local currencies in informal settlements”

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The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity: A Constitutional Analysis

Christine A. Desan

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The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity: A Constitutional Analysis”

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The color of money at the financial frontier

Ilias Alami & Vincent Guermond

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The color of money at the financial frontier”

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Understanding Full Investment and the Potential Role of Public Banks

Wesley Marshall & Louis-Philippe Rochon

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Understanding Full Investment and the Potential Role of Public Banks”

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Testimony of Massachusetts Public Banking in support of S.632/H.975 An Act to Establish a Massachusetts Public Bank

Ruth Caplan, Douglas Cliggott, Christine A. Desan, Cate McAnulty, Nadav Orian Peer, Nancy Ryan, Michael Swack, and Rory Van Loo

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Testimony of Massachusetts Public Banking in support of S.632/H.975 An Act to Establish a Massachusetts Public Bank”

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Rebuilding Banking Law: Banks as Public Utilities

Lev Menand & Morgan Ricks

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Rebuilding Banking Law: Banks as Public Utilities”