Podcast MDM 2018 Panel: Money, Democracy, and Morality
Just Money
https://justmoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/03-c_panel_money-democracy-and-morality_2018_12_14_smith_capitalism_b15at130pm-HDV-720p30-for-Archive.mp3The way we approach money shapes the moral implications that attach to its design and use. If money is a commodity or private trade credit that emanates from decentralized exchange, it might claim democratic legitimacy from its very genealogy. But if money is a matter engineered out of public debt and issued into circulation selectively, it has a very different relationship to democracy, one that raises the moral stakes for its creation and deployment within a community.
Presentations and Discussion
Peter Dietsch – Université de Montréal “Money Creation, Debt, and Justice“ Ann Davis – Marist College “Money as a Social Institution: Its Historical Emergence and Implications for Politics” Jonathan Crock – College of William and Mary “The Human Right to Democratic Control of Money” Maxximilian Seijo – University of South Florida “The Unnatural State: Money & Propaganda after New Deal Liberalism”
Commentator: Scott Ferguson – University of South Florida
