Martin Wolf on the current debate wether Europe is falling behind the USA, concludes it is all a CPI artefact, hedonic adjustments to consumer communication hardware prices, how am I not surprised @jwmason.bsky.social @arjunjayadev.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b77c...

Against Money by @jwmason.bsky.social and Arjun Jayadev A few thoughts on completion: An interesting and provocative take on money and its role in society from a lefty and macro perspective...

Very sad news.

Thank you for this thoughtful thread @winmonroe.bsky.social!

@70sbachchan.bsky.social does a better job summarising our book than we could. This was a lot of fun to do. Thanks @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social !

If we think of assets as wildly diverse real-world things/stuff, versus balance-sheet entries designating the $ market value of ownership rights, there's no possible numeric sum of those assets. (Asset markets are markets for rights!) Inspired by @jwmason.bsky.social @arjunjayadev.bsky.social

The failure to rigorously school econs in national-accounting methodology, practices, assumptions, and concepts — there is no formal training — leaves a great deal of econ theory standing on conceptual and empirical quicksand. /2

reserving @jwmason.bsky.socials against money at stockholms bibliotek as it's loaned out and there's one person in line. wondering what are the chances one of the other two is @maxjerneck.bsky.social

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

Video of our AGAINST MONEY book club with @jwmason.bsky.social and @arjunjayadev.bsky.social is now up!

As a national-accounting geek, maybe my favorite passage (there are so many!) in "Against Money" (@jwmason.bsky.social & @arjunjayadev.bsky.social) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 1/

This from the @jwmason.bsky.social book is something that not only do I agree with, but that is foundational to my account of why market based societies out perform authoritarian ones.

thanks @arjunjayadev.bsky.social and @jwmason.bsky.social your book is full of nuggets of precious economic wisdom that helps navigate this world of self evident neutral claims that are anything but

New book club! AGAINST MONEY, with @jwmason.bsky.social Mon June 29, 4pm EST us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

hi - by coincidence i happen to have read against money a few days before i saw the latest newsletter (would recommend!). i can't make the discussion live with the timings - is it being recorded by any chance? also would love to join book club discord but the link seems to be expired :(

some quick reflections on, and some key quotes from, Against Money (2026) by J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev

Mea Culpa, I only cracked open @arjunjayadev.bsky.social and @jwmason.bsky.social's book Against Money tonight. However, I am almost glad because it was quite a fun surprise to see them reflect on Alan Greenspan's legacy right from the beginning

Can the ECB stop chasing oil price spikes, please? This is the message of this important study in a nutshell. Inflation is all about fossilflation. So, we need a way to stabilize our economies that does not undermine the green transition we need, which is exactly what rate hikes end up doing.

I just saw that there’s going to be a book club with @jwmason.bsky.social about Against Money. I recently read the book, and it was one of the best I’ve read this year. I’m really looking forward to hearing Mason talk about a book I loved so much. if you’ve read it too, come join in! :)

New book day. Looking forward to reading @jwmason.bsky.social and Jayadev's book after hearing their excellent interview with @doughenwood.bsky.social.

Arjun and I discuss this a bit in Against Money:

Some very kind words on "Against Money" from @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social . Thank you very much! It is so gratifying to see the book make its way into the world, to see it being read, and perhaps even being helpful for folks! @jwmason.bsky.social , @chadzimmerman.bsky.social

fresh audio product: • J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, authors of Against Money, explain that curious stuff and enumerate its problems • Moira Weigel explains why the right hates Theory www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Stats like this make me think of @jwmason.bsky.social & @arjunjayadev.bsky.social’s AGAINST MONEY where this isn’t in any sense a “real” valuation: There’s no world where he could convert his holdings to the equivalent in money (or even commodities).

Arjun's and my interview with @doughenwood.bsky.social is now up and streaming. Working as Doug's intern 30 years ago was the real beginning of my economics education, so it means a lot to me personally to be on his show. kpfa.org/episode/behi...

What a wonderfully written introduction to economic dualism, courtesy of @jwmason.bsky.social Nothing like a good opening to whet your appetite for a book.

Here is a new podcast/video of @arjunjayadev.bsky.social and I talking with Nathan Robinson of Current Affairs about Against Money. youtu.be/p3X6D9qsFiU?...

Titles in this edition include: * Lisa Robertson's RIVERWORK * J W Mason & Arjun Jayadev's AGAINST MONEY * Jack Zipes's ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS TRUTH * Edward Jones-Imhotep's THE BROKEN MACHINE * Thomas Dekeyser's TECHNO-NEGATIVE * Trevor Paglen's HOW TO SEE LIKE A MACHINE

Somehow, every time I read about the eurozone crisis I get even angrier about it than I was before

Finished this over the weekend; great stuff @jwmason.bsky.social! I think you will enjoy my paper on money (if I ever get to wrap it up if you people stop writing books on money!)

Great review of Against Money by Jon Sindreu. In some ways I think he does a better job showing the real-world stakes of the book’s arguments than we did. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Really liked to see Utz-Peter Reich mentioned and praised. Everyone should read his books.

adesso sto leggendo Against Money @jwmason.bsky.social sono al Capitale e alla funzione di Solow. Il Capitale è di difficile definzione. e anche di difficile misurazione, esiste un database storico che si chiama Penn World Table dove il Capitale si trova insieme a altri dati di National Account

Against Money non delude :) Non riuscirò più a leggere di Total Factor Productivity come prima. Speriamo che cambi la percezione della scienza del clima, che sembra poggiarsi su fondazioni empiriche più solide. Una vecchia storia, ecologia ed economia scienze gemelle, destini diversi

I look forward to reading this important book by @johnjayeconomics.bsky.social professor @jwmason.bsky.social and @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social senior researcher and Azim Premji University professor @arjunjayadev.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Against Money by @jwmason.bsky.social and @arjunjayadev.bsky.social is simply terrific, probably the best book I've read this year. From capital, to the interest rate, to GDP, they examine the ways in which the money form governs our lives and can observe social relations. Definitely recommend.

Thanks so much! Very glad you enjoyed it.

In Against Money, @arjunjayadev.bsky.social and I argue that finance plays a role in our economy equivalent to that of the central planning agency in the old USSR. Nice to see that we are not the only ones making that connection. www.ft.com/content/5490...

Reading AGAINST MONEY is fun because there’s a nice balance of abstract sections and Ominous Foreboding.

Discussion from Against Money about how less worker power in the US and other nations leads to higher stock prices. We gotta start laying the rhetorical groundwork right now that any increase in worker rights is gonna make the stonks unhappy, and that’s both expected and a good sign.

Really enjoyed reading Against Money while recovering from knee surgery. Good introduction to post-Keynesian thought on finance/money which is under utilitized in economic geography. Great insights into the contradictions which finance internalizes and magnifies. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Case Against Money Economists often take money for granted, ignoring the role it plays in constraining the distribution of resources. > Money, write the authors, has been both misunderstood and misused by modern macroeconomics. Thanks to post-Keynesian and Marxian scholarship, the […]

CHICAGOLAND: JW MASON AND GABRIEL WINANT TALKING ABOUT MONEY PROBABLY SOME JOKES Saturday 5/30, 6:30pm Pilsen Community Books @jwmason.bsky.social @gabrielwinant.bsky.social @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @johnjayeconomics.bsky.social @uchicagohistory.bsky.social

A friend is sending me these lovely pictures of his reading our book while on a trek in Canada. He calls it "Against Money against the Rockies". Its nice to see it out in the wild (literally), but I hope he gets to enjoy the view more (the book will be there when he gets home). @jwmason.bsky.social

NEW FREE HELL! Our guest is @ineteconomics.bsky.social' Arjun Jayadev, co-author of “Against Money," (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). PLUS, the Hangover Cure, your answers to the Question from Hell!, This Week in Rotten History and your emails! www.patreon.com/posts/new-he...

Against Money, the new book by Mason and Jayadev, goes straight for the jugular of mainstream economics. I reviewed it here: jacobin.com/2026/05/agai...

Reading @jwmason.bsky.social & @arjunjayadev.bsky.social ‘s AGAINST MONEY right now, and reminded of how madness-inducing the European turn towards austerity was. This earlier piece of theirs lays out most of the details: prospect.org/2019/10/08/t...

Here's a short post with links to a couple recent interviews about Against Money. jwmason.org/slackwire/ta...

@jwmason.bsky.social thought you'd enjoy hearing: When I picked up my copy of Against Money at the local indie book store, the young person working the register got very excited. They said the book just went to the top of their reading list because they heard amazing things on BookTok.