Mehrsa Baradaran is a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Baradaran writes about banking law, financial inclusion, inequality, and the racial wealth gap. Her scholarship includes the books How the Other…
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Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0
Money and Empire: Past, Present, and Future of the Dollar System
Participants: Mehrsa Baradaran, Perry Mehrling and Quinn Slobodian
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Money and Empire: Past, Present, and Future of the Dollar System”
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Postal Banking’s Public Benefits
Mehrsa Baradaran
The financial crisis of 2008 made clear to the public, in a way that had not been apparent for some time, that banks depend for their existence and operation on a structural framework created by the federal government.
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Banking on Democracy
Mehrsa Baradaran
The financial system is unequal and exclusionary even as it is supported, funded, and subsidized by public institutions.
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Banking on Democracy”
Spring/Summer 2020
Race and Money
Contributors: Mehrsa Baradaran, Michael O'Malley, Michael Ralph, David M. P. Freund, Destin Jenkins, Peter Hudson, K-Sue Park
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Race and Money”
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Jim Crow Credit
Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California Irvine
The New Deal created a separate and unequal credit market—high-interest, non-bank, installment lenders in black ghettos
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Jim Crow Credit”
Roundtable 3: Race and Money
M. Baradaran, How the Right Used Free Market Capitalism against the Civil Rights Movement
May 19, 2020
Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California Irvine
In order to achieve racial justice in America, we must confront and then thoroughly reject simplistic and ahistorical myths about markets and capitalism.
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Senate Testimony of Mehrsa Baradaran on Cryptocurrency & Financial Inclusion
Author: Mehrsa Baradaran
In this testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Community Affairs, Mehrsa Baradaran provides perspective on the cryptocurrency industry’s ambitions with regard to financial inclusion for low income Americas as well as its place in the banking regulatory landscape.
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Senate Testimony of Mehrsa Baradaran on Cryptocurrency & Financial Inclusion”
Podcast
MDM 2018 Keynote: The Color of Money: Banking and Racial Inequality
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MDM 2018 Keynote: The Color of Money: Banking and Racial Inequality”