Can’t wait for this! You can read more about our project here: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/w... And here: moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/30/w...

Should be a great event!

Book here! 💸 🌈

Our first workshop at Middlesbrough’s Dorman Museum is just one week away! Let’s tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due. Places are free but limited, so please book here asap if you’d like to join us: forms.gle/3eWNxLKbtvYH...

"As 2025 draws to a close, we should all be 'horrified beyond belief,' but not by @zackpolanski.bsky.social's calls to think differently about 'the markets.' What ought to 'frighten' us all 'to death' is the status quo." moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/20/z...

Storytelling is another word for accounting; accounting is another word for storytelling. Who you include in your story matters. Let’s tell new stories in 2026. It’s time to give credit where credit’s due.

Today in #DemocraticPublicFinance Mamdani in his speech challenged the casual narrative erasure of many in his coalition. Narrative erasure is the first step of an accounting trick: if someone can be said to not really exist, then their existence presents as a cost to the city that excludes them.

Thanks again to Emi Imai and all at Boro Doughnut for playing a vital role on the day and to everyone who joined us @teessideuni.bsky.social to explore how new ideas about money could transform Middlesbrough 🍩 💷 🌈

Our event was a screening of the brilliant #MMT documentary Finding the Money, followed by a panel discussion with Maren Poitras (the film’s director), @videotroph.bsky.social, @philarmstrong58.bsky.social, and Antonia Liguori.

For me, one of the highlights of 2025 was launching @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social with my dear friend @robynollett.bsky.social as part of the #GlobalDonutDays. You can catch a glimpse of our event at 0:52 in this video, which beautifully captures the GDDs’ celebration of #DoughnutEconomics.

A quick look at #GlobalDonutDays 2025 — a community-led festival centred on #DoughnutEconomics, and how it came together around the world:

Essential reading on the debate around, and ultimate future of, the @zackpolanski.bsky.social project 💚

"Achieving the Green Party’s vision ... will require us to move beyond the talking points ... according to which MMT is regularly pigeonholed by UK commentators such as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social, & which fail to ask more searching questions about who creates money & for what purposes."

✨ New Essay! ✨ Assessing rising tensions over economic policy in the @greenparty.org.uk led by @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @robbhawkes.bsky.social calls for the Greens to embrace Democratic Public Finance, pushing beyond MMT talking points in order to democratize money's design. Please share! 🙌

“institutions with the public authority to do so […] continually create new money, which is thus an everyday occurrence […]. The essential question […] is not if money creation occurs but, rather, how and for what purpose.” Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, “Green-Lighting Gatsby” (forthcoming).

(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust by @robbhawkes.bsky.social

Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity

This #modwrite I’ve been putting the finishing touches to ‘“I’ve got an unfortunate talent for figures”: Queering Literary and Monetary Genres in The Talented Mr Ripley,’ which I’m presenting online on Wednesday - hit me up if you’d like the link!

On Weds 26 November from 3.30-4.30pm GMT @robynollett.bsky.social and I will be sharing some of our latest research via MS Teams as part of @teessideuni.bsky.social’s English & Creative Writing Research Seminar series. Why not join us online?

Importantly, this works by politicizing which credits are receivable for what, from the position of ordinary price-setters. That’s how monetary populism (complementary currencies, etc) is scalable. Cc @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @modernmoneylab.org.uk @robbhawkes.bsky.social @bdlimm.bsky.social

From monetary silencing to the politics of receivability, new stories of abundance & bonds becoming cash. These are practical questions, not obscure theories: Who gets to create money? Which institutions accept which forms of credit? How do we expand democratic participation in monetary design?

These aren’t utopian fantasies—they’re real tools for expanding democratic control over credit and bypassing manufactured scarcity. Much of our recent work has been about how complementary currencies help us see money itself as an open, contested choreography we can reshape together.

I enjoyed this too! Thx to @chrisb2024.bsky.social for inviting us and hosting. We talked about how “Unis” help students understand money as social technology; how campaign credits (see the Zetro card) can mobilise volunteer labour; and municipal bonds can become “cash” when politics makes it so.

Had a great time speaking with @modernmoneylab.org.uk about complementary currencies with my MOTL colleague @robbhawkes.bsky.social!! Some of our slides below 💛🫡

This is a short intro to our project, which speaks to many of the topics you’ve been addressing on your @boldpolitics.bsky.social podcast - it’s time to tell new stories about money and ecosocial justice!

Ha. Appreciated guys! 💚

An especially popular choice among the icons our workshop participants chose to adorn their ‘Curious Credits’ at last night’s workshop was a certain @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Green is colour of money after all!

We had so much fun issuing ‘Curious Credits’ at the second of our Where Credit's Due project events, a making/queering money workshop at A Curious Night At The Museum. Many thanks to all at Curious Arts and The Dorman Museum for looking after us and for organising such a fabulous night 🦄🌈💸

The Where Credit’s Due team will be issuing ‘Curious Credits’ at the Dorman Museum this time tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-curious-...

Will Beaman is joined by Robyn Ollett and Rob Hawkes to discuss What We Do in the Shadows.

Money is queer.

4/ We have the people. We have the needs. We have the resources. Let’s stop letting manufactured scarcity sabotage our care for each other. Read more @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

3/ Democratic Public Finance reframes money as credit—a public institution we design. Money is the process of recognising the contributions that matter to the community. Together, we can reorganise our monetary systems to serve people and planet, not financial markets and tech billionaires.

2/ The dominant political worldview today treats money as scarce and private. This makes politics a zero-sum game and gives bondholders veto power over democracy. It blocks us from organising our resources and people to meet community needs.

Democratic Public Finance 🧵1/ Money isn’t scarce—it’s a public tool we create to mobilise our collective capacities. The real question isn’t “where will we find the money?” but “what do we want to accomplish together?”

Thanks so much to @robbhawkes.bsky.social & @robynollett.bsky.social for inviting me to participate (remotely) in their inaugural event. We had a quite meaningful post-film dialog that was also a lot of fun.

Thanks so much to everyone who came to our launch event! It was such a joy to see so much positive and provocative conversation generated by the fantastic documentary Finding the Money.

As Minsky (almost) said, anyone can create Boro Bucks, the problem is getting them accepted

Tomorrow! And there’s still time to grab a ticket if you want to join us 🌈💷 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-cred...

In the UK? Check out this forthcoming event!

"In Middlesbrough, on October 18, 2025, we are hosting a free public screening of Maren Poitras’s documentary Finding the Money, which tells a very different story about money and taxation."

#GlobalDonutDays kicks off tomorrow and we have a limited number of spaces left for our Finding the Money screening and Q&A. Join us to tell new stories about money and to give credit where credit’s due!

"Contrary to economic orthodoxy, this paradigm redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than exploitative competition for scarce funds."

In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,” which was recently published in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice.

Hypothesis: If money is a designed human construct, then we can design experiments that test various design elements to yield alternative outcomes.

What time is it?

Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. This web page collects together links to all of our essays and interviews related to the project.

"Whatever our focus, ... , trans liberation requires a gender framework that expands the present bounds of possibility, in excess of the limited forms of life that have been previously afforded space. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) gives us just that framework."

If there is not enough for everyone, the only option is to leave some of us out. This, in turn, always means harming those who are already marginalised and perpetuating cycles of violence and disempowerment.

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro