✨New!✨ moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/20/t... @feinig.bsky.social translates & introduces an early essay by Jean-Michel Servet. This work inspired Graeber's critical popularization of the "myth of barter." Yet Servet's project goes further by also affirming money’s pro-social powers. Please share! 🙌

Happy 62nd Bday to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom! The most pro worker policy is also the best alternative to the NAIRU. The Job Guarantee ends precarious work and unemployment, improves state budgets, controls demand driven inflation, &more share.google/1SaM1CqYkhCa...

What happens when you're drawn to MMT, only to have a jarring realization: that many in the community reject the idea that money is based on trust? In our new episode, @robbhawkes.bsky.social discusses this exact moment and his work to build a new theory of trust for neochartalism.

Tremendous thanks to Steve Grumbine for having @wilbenjamin.bsky.social and I on the Macro N Cheese podcast to discuss *Blue Bonds.* 1/

Check out our conversation with Steve Grumbine about Blue Bonds. Episode drops tomorrow, Saturday 7/5 at 8 am Eastern.

Please message me if you'd like to take a look at a PDF.

Don't miss it. 👀

"If we could say that it was Reagan 1.0, Bush 2.0, it’s Trump 3.0 in the unitary executive theory waves." moneyontheleft.org/2025/04/01/d...

We at @moneyontheleft.bsky.social created a Blue Bonds Press Kit. Check it out! 👀

I'm thrilled to share our latest article for the MotL journal! Here, Rob Hawkes does important work rethinking the bases of social trust by affirming the fundamental publicness of monetary systems & eschewing the anti-social assumptions baked into exchange theories of "calculated risk." Must read!

I'm biased, but this is the best art in the MOTL series. Hale Woodruff, "Gate to the Campus" [Spelman College], 1935, black-and-white linocut. Come for the art, stay for the endogenous money creation.

Honored to participate in this upcoming workshop on "The Black University and Community Currencies" at Morehouse College this Friday. If you're in the Atlanta area, please consider attending.

Much like 19th-century canal, railroad, and mining companies, as well as 21st – century financial technology and cryptocurrency companies, gaming giants are engaging in private monetary governance. moneyontheleft.org/2025/03/02/g...

If you're in the public policy game looking for how to design a post-Trump society, reimagining public money needs to be at the center of your thinking. #econsky #publicpolicy #publicmoney

Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory.

Very important. No "back to normal". Only an improved social ordering can lead us out of this mess.

MotL 76 is live! 🗣️ ✨Odious Debt w/ @edjonesc.bsky.social ✨ We speak with Corredera about his important new book, Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024). moneyontheleft.org/2025/02/01/o... Please listen, read & share! 🎧 👩‍💻 🙌

New Essay! 🗣️ ✨ Money is Not a Medium of Exchange ✨ Contra the "exchange" paradigm linked to myths of barter, Jens Martignoni argues that we must reconceive money as an inherently collective project and rethink monetary functions as resulting from political design. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

"Put succinctly, we argue that the logic of sovereignty is not only violent, it is also outright false."

Is that the best single-sentence description of a monetary system, ever?

Episode 75 is live! 🔊 ✨ Community Currencies w/ Jens Martignoni ✨ moneyontheleft.org/2025/01/01/c... Please listen, read & share! 🎧 💻 🙌

As always this time of year, it’s not too late to read @videotroph.bsky.social’s Declarations of Dependence (222 pages) and/or @feinig.bsky.social’s Moral Economies of Money (208 pages). www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Nietzschean fabulation can often play a generative role in critical theory, but here Amin Samman’s invocation of the Nietzschean lie licenses lazy research & sloppy argumentation. See the thread below, if you’re interested in details. 1/🧵 www.boundary2.org/2024/12/amin...

🔊MotL 74 is live!🔊 ✨Law & Political Economy w/ Martha McCluskey✨ moneyontheleft.org/2024/12/01/l... Please share! 🙌 *Transcript forthcoming

New episode! Explore the ins and outs of the Law & Political Economy movement with Martha McCluskey.

I’m reposting @moneyontheleft.bsky.social because it’s so very important for us to build a community of scholars that push money’s abundant possibilities rather than surrendering to the dismal sciences mythology of scarcity. Boo scarcity

To be blunt, with fascists in government we need an inside-outside strategy that negotiates this receivability at the threshold of what are currently “official” and “unofficial” forms of credit. Complementary currencies can defamiliarize insides vs. outsides and expand fiscal agency. 2/2

MMT tells us that $USD is actually many denominations of credit distinct institutional histories (cash, bank notes, bank deposits, reserve balances, etc.) which give the *impression* of a homogeneous currency because of institutions that exchange them 1:1. Why is this especially important now? 1/

Andrew J. Douglas, political theorist and professor of political science at Morehouse College, joins Money on the Left to discuss his latest article, “Modern Money and the Black University Concept,” published in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. moneyontheleft.org/2024/06/02/t...

In this classic episode from our archive, we speak with Nathan Tankus about inflation and the politics of pricing.

Brazil, I ❤️ you. Can’t think of another country where you could have a panel with an incoming central bank governor who has a deep historical understanding of the need for a new international financial order and be hosted by a First Lady who says “f*ck you Elon Musk”.