My great good friend, also a Philly transplant to KC, Jim Simmons made the transition peacefully today after a courageous fight with the big C. His powerful Voice and tremendous Presence will remain with us forever! 🔥💯♥️🙏💥🌞🌍🌟🥨

Capitalists and Socialists both think money is “real.” 😂

From Fadhel Kaboub: I’m honored to be recognized by the New African Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Africans in 2025 under the Thinkers & Opinion Shapers category. 100.newafricanmagazine.com

From Caroline Hossein: “An honour to be speaking on feminist and solidarity economics at the Ministerio de Igualdad y Equidad in Colombia 🇨🇴.”

Ely Melchior Fair defending his UMKC Economics doctoral dissertation last night with committee members Sirisha Naidu (Economics), Michael Frisch Urban Planning & Design), Zhongjin Li (Economics, on zoom), and Mathew Forstater (Economics). Congratulations!!!

Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. www.isis.org.my/wp-content/u...

"Th[e present] system fosters a negative feedback loop where public entities, starved of democratic financing tools, are forced into a politics of austerity, while private markets are prone to credit-fueled bubbles."

Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only “modest gestures of care”—and who seem to have moved directly to “mourning” our inevitable environmental losses—Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.

If anything deserves more likes and retweets (and serious consideration) than what it’s getting here, it’s this!!!

OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE. - Walt Whitman

Anyone in the KC area, there is a screening of Finding the Money, the MMT documentary, followed by a panel discussion with the audience moderated by myself at Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church, 9400 Pflumm Road, Lenexa, Kansas Thursday, September 18, 7pm. UMKC Economics! Modern Money!

Denison University Professor/GISP President Fadhel Kaboub: “Fiscal space is constrained by potential inflation risks…The good news is that productive capacity is producible, and its production creates even more jobs.” www.myjoyonline.com/how-african-...

Congratulations to Dr Vishal Choudhury for successfully defending his UMKC doctoral dissertation yesterday, “Three Essays in Political Economy.” A very “Happy to You!” (with Vishal and family in KC a month ago.)

Thank YOU! Honored to build on what you’ve pioneered with the Cortland Uni currency—a concept and model that travels well, as my students are quick to point out.

Discussion of Jamee Moudud’s new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism sponsored by the Law and Political Economy Collective. Please consider registering and sharing with others. July 30, 2025 lpecollective.org/event/legal-...

earth’s wretched soon to be stretched to reach necessary for the change! end the strange alignment of breakback for the riffraff! be no more mindslave of the jiffypop member-only stinkflop to satisfy limpstick! the call to spread and the song of the dirt and sky!

Professor Ngugi visited Temple University the year this came out, 1986. A Powerful Force of Deep Humanity!

Shout out to UMKC @mathewforstater.bsky.social and @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social for getting all this started with the buckaroo and Denison dollars! The UNI grows !

Dr. Matthew Robinson, UMKC Economics & Geosciences, successfully defended his interdisciplinary PhD dissertation, Public Money and Reparations, supervised by Dr Linwood Tauheed, committee includes Scott Fullwiler, Bill Black, Carolyn Davies and Mathew Forstater.

Dr. Josefina Li and committee members following the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, The Quest for a Sustainable and Equitable Society.

From Fadhel Kaboub:

The United Nations has designated it as the Year of #Cooperatives! Our book, "Beyond #Racial Capitalism," coedited w/ Sharon Wright Austin UF and Kevin Edmonds #UofT, delves into #membership institutions. Consider citing & incorporating it into classes. You can access (lnkd.in/g_98spgg)

@msmagazine.bsky.social Founded by and for #feminists - Rickey Gard Diamond of An Economy of Our Own #aeoo wrote a story about the work I do, here is the link: msmagazine.com/2023/06/28/f...

Oleksandr (“Alex” or “Sasha”) Valchyshen successfully defended his economics doctoral dissertation, Reconsidering Capital Flows and Mobility, today at UMKC. So happy to be associated with this incredible analytical achievement and this amazing human being! x.com/messages/med...

Read Walter Rodney on his birthday and everyday. There’s still so much unpublished and understudied material in his archive in Atlanta, all so prescient, like what Chinedu Chukwudinma dug up on Rodney and Palestinian liberation. roape.net/2023/11/10/w...

Fadhel Kaboub’s latest blog is a poem called Longing for Genuine Global Solidarity, along with a music video he produced with AI. Enjoy and share with your friends! globalsouthperspectives.substack.com/p/longing-fo...

Africa’s hidden Wakanda is real! Fadhel Kaboub reveals the Real Wakanda Roadmap in this 3-minute video! Take a listen 👇🏼 youtu.be/vS6P_h6Soio

Feel free to share youtu.be/krTda3GpJE0?...

In the window display at the Amherst Bookshop.

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...

In the window of the Amherst bookstore.

Gettin’ my tonsils out tomorrow, Appendix was last week. Soon I’ll just be a skull on a pillow, I’m footless and fancy free! I’m in love with an anesthesiologist, I don’t know what to do. I’m crazy ‘bout an anesthesiologist, Think I’ll have another body part removed.

From Caroline Shenaz Hossein: THIS IWD2025 JOIN US to learn about feminist professors who care about society (not profits) at the University! MARCH 7TH @ 7PM est. Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Check out our new UNI CURRENCY PROJECT resource page. There, you'll discover a one-stop-shop for all texts, podcasts, & artworks related to Money on the Left's proposal to democratize & expand public university finance.

"I Am Finally Free!": Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned

"Finding the Money" is now free on YouTube. This is a documentary about Modern Monetary Theory & its policy implications. Featuring MMT experts Stephanie Kelton, L. Randall Wray, Warren Mosler, Fadhel Kaboub, Pavlina Tcherneva, Lua K. Yuille & Mathew Forstater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrje...

Today, @akapczynski.bsky.social kicks off a new year at the Blog by explaining what's wrong with institutional neutrality rules, and what we can expect of powerful institutions in the second Trump era.

The recording is here youtu.be/iofL1F0_MLE Here is the Just Transition report mentioned in the presentation: justtransitionafrica.org My Global South Perspectives substack substack.com/@globalsouth... And, the 1975 report: What Now? Another Development whatnext.org/research_pub...

Horrific times, but I’m off the job market and back on social media. I’m thrilled to join Boston College Law School on the tenure track! I’m looking forward to working alongside fantastic colleagues (including many LPE folks ;)). I’ll be teaching Banking Law, Law & Tech, and Contracts!