🚨More scholarship! In 'Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats' @benbraun.bsky.social & Maximilian Düsterhöft comb more than 11,000 speeches by 18 central banks to explore whether CBs discuss politically controversial topics, shedding light on how CBs strategically interact within their social context.🏦🌐

In my post for the Sabin Center’s Climate Law Blog series on climate reparations, I argue for a structural approach of reparations focusing on dismantling the financial subordination of the Global South embedded in debt relations blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

New scholarship 📣Carla Coburger historicizes the currency hierarchy in Nigeria, excavating its colonial roots justmoney.org/imperial-mon...

🚨Fellowship opportunity for aspiring legal scholars from the University of Wisconsin Law School 👇

📣New scholarship “Sharing Risk: The Path to Economic Well-Being for All” by Patricia McCoy. How is financial risk distributed and off-loaded on household ? How could we share risks differently? justmoney.org/sharing-risk...

📢The call for papers for a new international workshop on Financialization in Latin America has been extended to October 20! More info here 👇

🚨Researching issues related to American Political Economy? Professor Thomas Ferguson's recent Working Paper provides a valuable introduction to help researchers navigate the Institute for New Economic Thinking's new database of pre-F.E.C. political finance records. Check it out! 👇

DebtCon kicked-off today for three days of interdisciplinary discussions on sovereign debt with stellar speakers! In case you can't make it to D.C. in person, some sessions will be streamed for registrants. More information below👇

📢More scholarship! In this article, Prof. @vijaybk.bsky.social rethinks the role of well-designed consumer financial protection institutions as a mechanism to counter the inherently unequal distribution of power coded in our financial system's legal design. Check it out!👇

🚨Scholarship! How does a currency become widely adopted internationally? Focusing on the euro, Profs. @jvtk.bsky.social & @steffenmurau.bsky.social highlight the role of state-led governance. Successful currency internationalization, they suggest, is seldom a purely market-driven phenomenon.

📢 NOMOS 2025 Annual Conference: Capitalism and Socialism Panels on value & money 🗓 Sept 26, 12–6:45 PM EST | Hybrid: Harvard Safra Center + Zoom justmoney.org/2025-annual-...

📣The 2025 Conference of the American Monetary Institute is coming soon! Two weekends (Sept 19–21 & 26–28) around the theme of “Avarice, Power, and the Future of Money.” Register now at monetary.org .

📢New on our Current Scholarship section: How does a central bank's legal design determine which interests it serves? @danrohde.bsky.social dives deep into this question looking at the Bank of Canada's founding debates. Check it out! 📖🏦💰

📢 Sharing a job opportunity: UNC School of Law is hiring a tenure-track/tenured professor in Banking & Financial Institutions Law (start Fall 2026). justmoney.org/unc-professo...

🚨New international Finance and Society Conference happening in Copenhagen in September 11-12! Keynotes by Christian Borch (University of Copenhagen), Fabian Muniesa (Mines Paris – PSL), and @vanessahistory.bsky.social (Yale University) 💸🗺️

I'm really pleased to be featured in @justmoney.bsky.social's current scholarship post. Looking at the Bank of Japan and Fed archives, I argue that QE was always linked to public-sector support, but that effect was deliberately suppressed in central banks' public research and other comms.

Great time to read this great paper

📢More scholarship! @bendinovelli.bsky.social's timely paper revisits the Federal Reserve's ostensibly unique status among administrative agencies. It examines SCOTUS' attempt to except the Fed from case law limiting agency independence, with implications for Fed Governors' legal removal protections.

In two days!  As part of their Political Economy Teach-in Series, South Feminist Futures will host Professor Verónica Gago for a session on "Debt as a Form of Government."

🚨Current scholarship! In this article, Prof. Bateman explores the communication strategies through which central bankers in Japan and the US downplayed the fiscal effects of quantitative easing programs, raising interesting questions about central bank independence and the fiscal/monetary divide. 🏦💸

📢Current Scholarship! Commenting recent work on money in early America, Prof. Desan's latest article traces the historiography of money to an emerging strand of scholarship that recovers money's nature as a practice that organizes value, deeply shaping social structures in the process.📜💰

🚨More scholarship! What role did branch banking play in cementing the US's international dominance in the early XX C.? In 'Dollars and Dominion' Mary Bridges explores how the infrastructural power of international bank branches shaped global geopolitics and local communities in which it operated. 🏦🌎

📢Book Talk!📖 Next Wednesday at 10:00-11:30 EST, the @lpec.bsky.social will host an online discussion of Professor Moudud's book. Prof. Moudud will be joined by Anna Chadwick and @johnhaskell.bsky.social as commentators. More info and registrations at lpecollective.org/event/legal-...

📢New in our current scholarship section! In 'Digitizing the Fisc' Professor @rohangrey.bsky.social presents a blueprint to update the US fisc's legal and technological infrastructure and rebalance the separation of fiscal powers to ensure Congress retains the purse's strings. 👇

🚨Scholarship! Professor Moudud's book challenges the idea of laissez faire and the regulation/de-regulation dichotomy that undergirds orthodox economics. Economic institutions, he argues, are always politically constituted, reflecting normative commitments towards certain distributional outcomes. 📚👇

🚨The latest installment in our public banking roundtable is out! 🏦 Using the Bank of North Dakota as a case study, Ellen Brown (co-founder of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social) makes the case for public banks as a profitable and resilient way to boost public project funding. Check it out! 👇

📢Scholarship! @mkonings.bsky.social's Making Money Modern traces how keynesian ideas gave way to a system of subsidies and backstops that socializes losses and privatizes gains. Against this backdrop, he discusses how a revitalized kayenesianism for our times might look like. Currently open access!

🚨 In his latest book, Prof. Randall Wray explores the role of credit and state monies in capitalist economies. Discussing the evolution and nature of money and the mechanisms through which it is created and disseminated, he argues that capitalism can be characterized as a monetary production system

📢Current scholarship! Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that it might uphold removal protections for Federal Reserve Board Members. It's reasoning was concise, yet, Professor Lev Menand argues in this recent piece, it could also stand on shaky ground. Check it out! 👇

🚨 More scholarship! How can the institutional structures that support monetary hierarchies be morally evaluated? In this article, Professor @aaronjames.bsky.social explores arguments grounded on relational equality, republican anti-domination, and an understanding of money as 'res publica'. More👇

On Thursday, June 12, at 11:00 am, our friends at @justmoney.bsky.social will be hosting an online workshop to discuss Morgan Ricks’s draft chapter on “Financial Market Infrastructure.”

📢Scholarship! What is money, anyway? In this article, Professor Ingham resumes a longstanding debate on the ontology of money. Defending a credit theory of money, he explores money's dual (abstract and actual) nature and the monetary hierarchies into which different kinds of credit are organized. 👇

New JustMoney Online Workshop coming your way! Join us on June 12 at 11:00 am EST for a discussion on Professor @morganricks1.bsky.social's upcoming book chapter on "Financial Market Infrastructure." Professor Ricks will discuss his current draft followed by a group discussion. RSVP here! 👇

🚨More Fed scholarship! Lev Menand and Josh Younger's One System, Two Mandates explores the Fed's responsibility to foster orderly markets in U.S. debt. It discusses the origin, policy frameworks, institutional configurations, and challenges of this mandate, including its tension with monetary policy

📢Current Scholarship! Is the Fed's legal mandate being misinterpreted? Challenging the conventional wisdom, @bendinovelli.bsky.social argues that the Fed's sole mandate is to regulate excessive credit. This reading of the FRA has important implications for the Fed's toolkit and policy framework. ➕👇

🚨Current Scholarship! How do looming debt crises impact women, and, most importantly, what can be done about it? In 'Engendering fiscal space: External debt, concessional finance, and special drawing rights,' Professor Ilene Grabel tackles these timely and important questions. More here! 👇

🚨 Less than 24 hours to go for Professor Orian Peer's Online Workshop! Don't forget to RSVP using the link below! 🏦🌱

More exciting news: Get ready for the first JustMoney Online Workshop! Next Tuesday 4/29 at 10:00 am EST, Professor Nadav Orian Peer will discuss his recent paper 'Climate Alignment for Banks: The Stories that Numbers Tell.' More information here 👇 Link to paper on our current scholarship section.

And we're back! 🚨 New in our Public Banking roundtable, Professor Iain Frame contrasts two very different public banking models in the UK and discusses whether, and if so to what extent, neoliberal ideas have shaped their design. Check it out! 👇

📢New installment of our Public Banking series! 🏦 In 'A Radically Open Future?' Professors @franziskapaul.bsky.social and Andrew Cumbers contextualize the public banking movement in the U.S. as part of a broader grassroots push against neoliberal capitalism. Check it out! 👇

🚨New on our current scholarship section! How should banking regulations respond to the current climate crisis? In 'Climate Alignment For Banks,' Professor Nadav Orian Peer discusses what a shift from dominant 'climate risk' approaches to promising 'climate alignment' approaches would entail. 🏦🌱

Speaking of public finance initiatives, the Philadelphia Public Banking Coalition's "Financing Philadelphia’s Future" series will host Tom Sgouros for a public discussion on how pension funds can help provide affordable housing. Happening tomorrow, 4:30-5:00 pm EST through Zoom.

📢Roundtable alert! In the first installment of our new series on Public Banking, Professor Gerald Epstein surveys recent movements to establish public banks across the U.S., discussing their promise, but also the many challenges they have faced and will likely continue to face in the near future. 🏦👇

📚Reviewing recent books on the Federal Reserve, Prof. James K. Galbraith's 'The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve' surveys the successes, limitations, and impact of repeated attempts to increase the Fed's Congressional accountability from the 1970s to the present. Check it out! 👇

📢More scholarship! In 'Spread the Fed,' @roberthockett.bsky.social provides an overview of the political and economic struggles that have shaped the Fed's design and operational frameworks, and charts a new path forward to better balance calls for both productive investment and financial stability👇

Errata: The summer school will be held on JUNE 5-7, not July. Apologies for the confusion!

Event alert! 🚨Entitled 'Rethinking Capitalism: "the Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity",' this talk organized by the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies will discuss Prof. Fred Block's new book with a stellar lineup of commentators. Feb. 7, 1:00 pm @ The New School. 👇

📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org database. We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)

☀️📖The Political Economy of Finance Summer School is back! Its 2025 edition will be held on July 5-7 at Brown University. Good opportunity for PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows, and early career scholars interested in the intersection of political economy and finance. Applications due March 1!

📢Job opportunity! The Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School is hiring a full-time Executive Director to join this summer. Position open for people with a background in academia and/or public policy and a JD, PhD or equivalent. Applications are received on a rolling basis.