The "Blue Bonds" concept was developed by people at @moneyontheleft.bsky.social. As its name suggests, MotL is a great resource for Leftists who want to identify, and unlearn, orthodox assumptions about money that unnecessarily constrain public spending. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/b...

🌐 #GlobalDonutDays is a four-day, community-led festival, held online and in-person around the world, centred on #DoughnutEconomics. In 2025, GDD happens 14–17 October. Find everything at doughnuteconomics.org/gdd2025

How it started…

"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."

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.

I'm allergic to listening to podcasts but this looks soooo good: "Drawing parallels with right wing attacks on contemporary drag performance and ballroom traditions, Will discusses Bakhtin’s analysis of the Medieval carnival humor"

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can reimagine public credit creation and build intersectional solidarity with… The @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social Team.

Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by @robynollett.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

If you like food, money and democracy, then you're gonna love this essay.

Modern Money & the Black University Concept By Andrew J. Douglas

“The assumption that only billionaires or suburban taxpayers can provision democracy has become so entrenched that it is easier to imagine acquiescing to authoritarianism than bypassing this veto.” Hard, but accurate diagnosis of ideological stagnation of establishment Dems & even some Social Dems

This is very good.

”We live in a democracy with boundless capacity, yet it is held hostage—openly and in bad faith—by private money and the austerity habits it demands. If democracy fails, it will not be because the public’s appetite was absent, but because we accepted private money’s “no” at face value.” Fuckin’. A.

another cool podcast @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Superstructure is a MMT podcast for critical theory, media culture & aesthetics that are committed to unconditional inclusion and intersectional politics.

Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby

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

"...so many continue to bow before private money’s veto even as it is unmasked as blackmail and collusion. The task is to cultivate and extend the democratic reflex wherever it appears, multiplying its legibility, and provisioning the health of our democracy..."

If blue states and cities had a peacetime bond drive to outlast this administration, that “debt” could be purchased by a progressive administration too. Same with complementary currencies of all kind. Whether it’s money or debt is politics, not economics.

In this episode, we share Part 2 of our coverage of The Black University & Community Currencies workshop. moneyontheleft.org/2025/06/11/t...

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

The conversation traces the development of Rob’s long-standing interest in theories of trust from his doctoral research in literary studies towards an increasing fascination with the topic of money which eventually led him to MMT, neochartalism and the Money on the Left project.

"The paradox of Starmerism is that it presents itself as pragmatic but is in fact the most utopian position of all: it assumes that billionaires and their enforcers can be persuaded to underwrite democracy, against all evidence."

The conversation traces the development of Rob’s long-standing interest in theories of trust from his doctoral research in literary studies towards an increasing fascination with the topic of money which eventually led him to MMT, neochartalism and the Money on the Left project.

This episode presents Part 1 of the workshop. The first panel is titled “What is Public Money?” (Delman Coates, Scott Ferguson & Benjamin Wilson.) The second asks: “What is the Uni Currency Proposal?” (Scott Ferguson & Benjamin Wilson).

CFP: Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy. moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/t...

WHY CREDIT’S DUE: RECLAIMING PRIDE IN BORO

“The most talented journalists in the country are between jobs, the most creative campaigns run on fumes, and state and city governments are left to administer austerity with nothing but temporary patches.”

✨New Essay!✨ We live in a democracy with boundless capacity, yet one held hostage by private money & establishment cowardice. @greenbackbetter.bsky.social argues for creating new public circuits of credit to mobilize our democratic potential. Don't be a bottleneck--& don't forget to share! 🙌

My latest for MoTL ✨The Case for Fiscal Insurgency ✨ "If democracy fails, it will not be because the public’s appetite was absent, but because we accepted private money’s “no” at face value. Even when the mask has long since slipped, and the idea that “the market” demands austerity is a bad joke."

Check out our latest! "For nearly half a century, Democrats have been told to treat fiscal sabotage as an impersonal event—something to adapt to, never contest."

This article argues that the neochartalist perspective on money opens up new ways of understanding trust.

1/3 We had an absolute blast at the Anti-Austerity Conference in Bristol last weekend, hosted by @modernmoneylab.org.uk. Our Co-Director Sasha Josette joined Plaid Cymru Councillor Mark Hooper & Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to discuss the political economy of the UK, & solutions to austerity.

👇👇👇 really wish I could make it to this!

Step 1: Check out our brand new website. Step 2: Book your place at our free public screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough on 18 October. Step 3: Start telling a different story and help us give credit where credit’s due.

If you want to start telling a different story, join us on 18 October 2025 in Middlesbrough, UK.

The capacity to do good things OBVIOUSLY exists, but funds are being withheld by authoritarian sabotage. The only way out is for cities and states to create circuits of direct financing. Bonds, credits, scrip, whatever, we MUST keep jobs and payments flowing. moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

It's Monday once again! Share what you are working on with us using #ModWrite! ☔

Euphoria: A Textural Analysis

In addition to writing and teaching in the field of literature & economics, Seybold produces and hosts The American Vandal podcast, an ever-growing collection of conversations and presentations about literature, humor, and history in America that is inspired by Mark Twain’s life and legacy.

Serving up Postmodern Monetary Theory since 2018

I narrated some @moneyontheleft.bsky.social’a strategic deliberations in this follow up piece. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/b...

Seeing the positive responses to California's plan is very good! States have powers to counter fed austerity; our task is to marshal the political will to wield them. @moneyontheleft.bsky.social has a great piece on how states can use their power to issue bonds. moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

We talk with Sylla about the history of political economy in pre-& post-colonial Africa; the theoretical bases & political stakes of the anti-CFA Franc movement; & how MMT ought to inform current & future efforts to restore political and economic sovereignty to West African nations.

Decades past its heyday, postmodernism today frequently serves as a pejorative for reactionary critics of social and ecological justice and aesthetic diversity.

Rob and Scott return to their dialog about modernism, inflation, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.

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