This is the edited transcript of a talk I delivered on March 5 at the Heilbroner Center for the Study of Capitalism at the New School for Social Research in New York, at the invitation of Julia Ott.

No one seems to really understand what money is and what it does. In this new book, Josh Mason and Arjun Jayadev give the best explanation I've ever seen for what money does, how it works, and the dam...

A new book about the meaning of money argues for how to use finance to create a more equitable economy.

Positive Money Europe's 2026 summer list: books, films and podcasts on money, energy politics, and climate change.

We recorded a discussion with Arjun Jayadev and JW Mason on their new book, Against Money.

Against Money J. W. Mason, Arjun Jayadev Published May 5, 2026 by University of Chicago Press ISBN 9780226842530 (ISBN10: 0226842533) A must

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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 (October article here)

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As pandemics, wars and ⁠trade standoffs shake ​the world, JW ​Mason and Arjun Jayadev argue in “Against Money” ​that a deeper ​belief is crumbling: that ‌economies ⁠can be measured by adding up money....