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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A Symposium on Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
B. Alston, The Same System, the Same Results
September 23, 2021
B. Alston
Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality drives home points that many of us have experienced intimately—the current municipal finance system is racist and inherently flawed.
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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 Symposium on Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
B. Highsmith, The Bondholders’ Veto: Fiscal Federalism and Local Democracy
September 9, 2021
B. Highsmith
Among many culprits behind this “conservative logic of financialization,” one stands out: the withdrawal of centralized fiscal transfers from higher levels of government. Without access to state and federal funds, cities became dependent on the market to meet even their most basic responsibilities.
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A Symposium on Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
M. Prasad, Histories of Hammers
August 26, 2021
M. Prasad
Destin Jenkins’s astonishing new book had me reaching for poetry: “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken.” The new planet is municipal bond finance.
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A Symposium on Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
D. Stein, Public Money without Public Goods
August 19, 2021
D. Stein
As Davis suggested, public money could shape society—it would produce the future. But who controlled it? Who steered its path?
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A Symposium on Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
N. J. Ramos, The Myth of Fair Share/Equal Share Bond Projects
August 12, 2021
N. J. Ramos, Drexel University
Destin Jenkins’s focus on municipal bond financing in The Bonds of Inequality contributes to a growing field of literature demonstrating how monetary and financial policy play a significant role in reinforcing racial inequality.
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Podcast
MDM 2018: Financialization and Inequality
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Mark Blyth – Brown University
Gerald Epstein – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rana Foroohar – Financial Times
Natascha van der Zwan – Leiden University
Rebecca Spang – Indiana University
Commentator: Sandy Brian Hager – City, University of London
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MDM 2018 Keynote: The Color of Money: Banking and Racial Inequality
Speaker: Mehrsa Baradaran – University of Georgia School of Law
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