My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

For those interested in building new institutions for higher education, I'd be happy to share what I've learned over the last five years building Mimbres School. It is possible and there is a market for this product (but you'll need to become comfortable thinking about "markets" and "products"!)

I have taught two courses with the Mimbres School, "On Horses" back in 2023 and currently wrapping up "Domestication Syndrome." I usually do a reading group once a semester; next semester, I'm leading one about Castration. We research many different subject areas which intersect and overlap.

Everywhere we look we see signs of the institutions of higher ed collapsing, not only financially, but also in terms of living up to their own values. I'd love to be a part of brainstorming alternatives beyond these institutions. Where is that work happening and are they accepting new members?

Upcoming Fall 2025 courses for the Mimbres School! "Childhood" w Jules Delisle @jadevidadelisle.bsky.social "Prehistory of Islam" w Martin Devecka "Political Arithmetic" w Colin Drumm @drumm-colin.bsky.social Sign-ups here: mimbres.org/courses

Syllabus for my course "Political Arithmetic" this Fall at the Mimbres School. First session meets on September 20. Tuition is $250. drive.google.com/file/d/1N8tf...

does anybody know of a place where keynes elaborates on this special case

can anybody recommend a good secondary source on Keynes' differing views and/or definitions about the relationship between "saving" and "investment" between the Treatise on Money and the General Theory?

economics is when you don't know the value of silver so you compare it to labor, you don't know the value of labor so you compare it to corn, and you don't know the value of corn so you compare it to silver.

There's still time to sign up for my upcoming course, Domestication Syndrome. Check out the syllabus below. First session is June 1st. Sign up here: mimbres.org/courses/dome...

Course information here: youtu.be/GHIoNIDxeUQ

Check out my upcoming course, "Domestication Syndrome"! Summer 2025 with Joy! Sign up here! mimbres.org/courses/dome...

Friends, I am so excited to share that my book is finally available for pre-order, and it’s CHEAP 😁 (They accidentally put up a cover image w an older version of the title - no “allegiance”) www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-order-...

Mimbres School Summer 2025 Groups can be attended by anyone with a Patron-tier subscription or a current tuition for a Summer class. All recordings available for subscribers Check out subscriptions and signups at mimbres.org

I am teaching a course this summer about Domestication Syndrome. This video is a brief description of the course and some details about how to sign-up. Look forward to seeing you there :) youtu.be/GHIoNIDxeUQ

financial history of the us confederacy?

there's absolutely nothing metaphorical about money, people need to stop saying this

here's a fun passage for you to puzzle over

oh you have a machine that can consider a string of words and place the expected next word following it? that's cool. personally i'm a writer so i like to follow up a string of words with an unexpected one, but you do you

great time to check out the mimbres school course on sovereignty available in our archive for the low low price of $10/mo

great time to check out the mimbres school course on sovereignty available in our archive for the low low price of $10/mo

am I correct to think that Marx is in fact the first historian of economic thought or does he have a predecessor I'm not aware of

sneak peek at mimbres school 2026

does anybody have any recommendations for good overviews of french economic financial monetary history in the first half of the C18? I am looking for some context for reading Richard Cantillon

does anybody have any recommendations for good overviews of french economic financial monetary history in the first half of the C18? I am looking for some context for reading Richard Cantillon

Looking forward to discussing this one on 03/16 with @themimbresschool.bsky.social & @drumm-colin.bsky.social #FridayReading

Video from Wednesday's discussion w/ Perry Mehrling

I'm very excited to be teaching a course about animal domestication and neoteny. Sign ups are now open! mimbres.study.garden/courses/dome...

Sign-ups are open for all 2025 Mimbres School courses (including mine: Domestication Syndrome). $250/course with a $100 deposit. Annual school subscriptions are being matched through to the end of January, so sign up now! The art store is also open. mimbres.study.garden/courses

Keynes says this in his review of Mitchell Innes. Does anybody know where I can read Keynes on Macleod?

I need images of MS. 62 in the John Locke archive at Goldsmith's. AFAICT they are not available online. I'm willing to pay somebody to go there and get legible pictures of it for me. DM if interested. youll also get thanked in my acknowledgements for the help openpublishing.psu.edu/locke/mss/c1...

what are the best books about 2008

One annoying thing about running a school is that I have to let other people teach classes also. But I get to teach again this Spring and here's what we'll be reading for my class "Philosophy: Friend or Foe?" Sundays, biweekly, 10 AM UTC-7. First session Feb 9.

see it would be nice ot post over here but i posted exactly the same post at exactly the same time and got 20 likes here and 1,800 on twitter

It ought to be a hard rule of historical writing that one must never translate historical sums of money into "modern terms." this is bad info in the sense that it is actively worse to have it than not at all. you can give comparisons to other prices or incomes, that's it

Mimbres School 2025 Courses: SPRING: Slavery and Unfreedom When is Capitalism? Philosophy: Friend or Foe? SUMMER: Domestication Syndrome Anti-Kant FALL: Political Arithmetic Prehistory of Islam Childhood Tuition $250. Registration open soon. See thread for descriptions

Hope I can someday find time for a class on mimbres.study.garden Randomly saw someone's bio mention them on here months ago which led to listening to @jadevidadelisle.bsky.social's epic 2-part interview on ecological thinking ( youtu.be/AkTMh7ypfqM ) and kinship ( youtu.be/zYfhNflKQaU ):

Philosophy: Friend or Foe? Mimbres School Spring 2025

Philosophy: Friend or Foe? Mimbres School Spring 2025

big downside of running a school where you get to put together a curriculum composed exclusively of people you like and topics you find interesting is the crushing realization that you can't possibly read all of it yourself

mimbres school spring 2025 provisional schedule (subject to change)

amused by the implicit general principle here that it is unnatural for any animal to do anything that no other animal does