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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).

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

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

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

"This is not fiscal realism. It is self-inflicted austerity, the result of imagining sabotage itself as an inescapable condition of democratic life."

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.

WHY CREDIT’S DUE: RECLAIMING PRIDE IN BORO

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!

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

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.

#MMT in Yorkshire. Interactive, accessible, anti-austerity weekend workshop, loosely based on a university course, in Sheffield on 20/21 September. I hope to see you there. events.humanitix.com/public-money...

The Great Money Myth We seem to have forgotten that Britain's government, as the sole creator of the pound, doesn't need to tax or borrow to fund its spending. It creates new money whenever it spends. Taxes don't finance the government; instead, they create demand for the currency and manage…

#GlobalDonutDays 2025 | Finding the Money - Film Screening and Q&A Film screening, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the director Maren Poitras and other guests. 🗓️ Oct 18 | ⏰ 1:30 PM BST 📍Middlesbrough (UK) See more:

"Underpinning these divisive myths is a pervasive logic of scarcity: there is not enough to go round."

Held on the campus of Morehouse College, the workshop fostered dialogue between students, faculty, and activists about the radical possibilities of public money for higher education, broadly, and for communities at and around Morehouse, specifically. moneyontheleft.org/2025/06/11/t...

The stories we tell about our communities and the people that build them are intimately bound up with the way we account for them in monetary terms. Join us in Middlesbrough on October 18 to give credit where credit’s due.

“In the words of Maren Poitras, director of the documentary film Finding the Money […]: ‘This money piece, I think, is really the missing piece in the entire environmental movement’.”

"Reconfiguring recognition, taking pride in our community, and reclaiming our self-worth are central to our aims for this project."

"[T]here *is* such a thing as public money and public money belongs to everyone."

The UK’s present xenophobic tensions - from flag displays to anti-immigration protests - rely on a logic of scarcity: “there’s not enough to go around.” The same thinking fuels attacks on refugees, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ communities, and benefit claimants. But what if the premise is wrong? 🧵1/6

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby turned 100 years old earlier this year. Here’s our project co-organiser @robbhawkes.bsky.social in the first of a 2-part conversation with @videotroph.bsky.social about this endlessly fascinating book.

"Refugees and asylum seekers, disabled people, people of colour, LGBTQIA+ people, unemployed people and other benefits claimants all regularly face accusations of being a burden on or a threat to British society."

#mmt #obviously

"The false narratives fuelling this combination of nationalistic fervour and xenophobic violence are that “illegal” immigrants to the UK are luxuriously treated at the expense of the “indigenous” population."

Tickets are going fast for our screening of Finding the Money in Middlesbrough in October. Book yours now to avoid disappointment! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-cred...

Check out this interview with our project co-organiser @robbhawkes.bsky.social about his recent article on money and trust…

"Underpinning these divisive myths is a pervasive logic of scarcity: there is not enough to go round."

"Underpinning these divisive myths is a pervasive logic of scarcity: there is not enough to go round."

"[T]here *is* such a thing as public money and public money belongs to everyone. Moreover, all money is credit, and credit is due to more people and more places than the present logic of scarcity and exclusion will ever allow."

"We hope you will join us in becoming part of this broader movement toward economic systems that recognise the full range of human identities, capacities, and contributions."

Well I take some hope from this good read.

"We care passionately about our town and the people who make up our communities, so we are dedicated to taking action and helping people understand that, despite what politicians and journalists might tell us, there is enough to go around."

This is so good. "The false narratives fuelling this combination of nationalistic fervour and xenophobic violence are... that there is only ever an either/or choice between caring for “our own people” and providing basic support to those fleeing war, persecution, and/or starvation overseas..."

"The false narratives ... are that 'illegal' immigrants ... are luxuriously treated at the expense of the 'indigenous' population & that there is only ever an either/or choice between caring for 'our own people' & providing basic support to those fleeing war, persecution, &/or starvation overseas."

We’re excited to announce that bookings are now open for our a free public screening of Finding the Money, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the director Maren Poitras, @videotroph.bsky.social, @philarmstrong58.bsky.social, and Antonia Liguori. Join us in Middlesbrough on Oct 18!

We screened this film in London last year, and one of the attendees (works in the New Economy movement) told me it was the one thing that gave him hope all year. Go see it!

Coming soon to @teessideuni.bsky.social: #FindingtheMoney, the story of an intrepid group of economists on a mission to flip our understanding of money upside down. How could reimagining money transform Middlesbrough and revolutionise our ability to tackle the climate crisis? Find out in October 💷