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The aim of Just Money is to encourage policy and scholarly debate around the monetary design of financial capitalism, its historical roots, its distributive implications, its social and ecological costs, and its alternatives: justmoney.org

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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Preparing for the Next Collapse - Monetary and Financial Reforms Are Crucial
Preparing for the Next Collapse:
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📣 New article by Kevin Byrne Keller showing how the World Bank didn’t just shape a US‑led neoliberal order, but also helped support China’s state-owned enterprises and the rise of state capitalism. A fresh look at global economic legal history ! justmoney.org/world-bank-o...
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Current ScholarshipThe World Bank and the Origins of Chinese State Capitalism
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
📣 Is there a way out of an economy built on debt? Webinar organized by the the "International Movement for Monetary Reform" with Michael Kumhof (former Bank of England, IMF & Stanford ) on May 28, 12:30–2pm ET Registration and more information here : justmoney.org?p=13134&prev...
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AnnouncementWebinar “Is there a way out of an economy built on debt?” with Michael Kumhof (May 28)
Thurs May 28 at 12:30-2pm ET
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📣Scholarship on public banking. This paper introduces a new dataset (1,355 banks across 195 countries, 1401–2020) to challenge assumptions about public banking. Far from relics or recent innovations, public banks are a persistent feature of governance across time. justmoney.org/old-novel-id...
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Current ScholarshipAn old, novel idea: introducing G-Pub, an original dataset of public bank formation
Devin Case-Ruchala
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Join us tomorrow for our workshop. To receive the Zoom link, fill in this form : forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
📢 Join us! Just Money is hosting an online workshop on "Money in the Digital Age" with Prof. Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School). 🗓 Apr. 22, 2026 ⏰ 12:00 PM ET 💻 Online (Zoom) More information and reservation link : justmoney.org/online-works...
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AnnouncementOnline Workshop: Money in the Digital Age with Prof. Benjamin Geva (Apr. 22)
Evolution and Future of Money in Canada: Implications for the Digital Age, Legal and Regulatory Perspective
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
📣New scholarship from @bartazsofi.bsky.social on how credit rating agencies (Fitch, Moody’s, S&P) discount long-term climate risks to preserve their epistemic authority - preventing the reallocation of capital away from carbon-intensive assets. justmoney.org/tragedy-hori...
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Current ScholarshipTragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings
Zsófia Barta
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
📢 Join us! Just Money is hosting an online workshop on "Money in the Digital Age" with Prof. Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School). 🗓 Apr. 22, 2026 ⏰ 12:00 PM ET 💻 Online (Zoom) More information and reservation link : justmoney.org/online-works...
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AnnouncementOnline Workshop: Money in the Digital Age with Prof. Benjamin Geva (Apr. 22)
Evolution and Future of Money in Canada: Implications for the Digital Age, Legal and Regulatory Perspective
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📣New scholarship ! The expansion of executive power is now colliding with the Federal Reserve and exposes a deeper constitutional clash over who controls money. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Democratic Sovereignty and the Prerogative to Make Money: The Case of the Federal Reserve
The surge of executive power unleashed by the Supreme Court has reached the Federal Reserve, provoking a crisis that the justices seem suddenly anxious to avoid
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
📣 Two fascinating podcasts exploring the legal roots of capitalism. Jamee Moudud tracing the marginalization of legal and political approaches to the economy on "Odd Lots" Katharina Pistor examining the role of law in enabling enclosures on "Capitalisn't". justmoney.org/podcast-epis...
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AnnouncementPodcast episodes on the legal roots of capitalism
Jamee Moudud & Katharina Pistor
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📣A conference on "public banking for community development" was held at Havard Law School, featuring talks by Christine Desan, Michael Swack & Don Morgan. Watch the full recording here: justmoney.org/video-confer...
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Current ScholarshipVideo: Conference on Public Banking for Community Development
Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law Christine Desan, University of New Hampshire Professor Michael Swack, Don Morgan, President and CEO of the Bank of North Ontario
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Call for papers on "Law, Political Economy and the Legal Geography of Money" for a conference to be held on June 25–26 at Sciences Po Paris justmoney.org/call-for-pap...
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AnnouncementCall for Papers: Law, Political Economy and the Legal Geography of Money
Call for Papers: Law, Political Economy and the Legal Geography of Money (Paris – June 25 & 26)
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🚨Scholarship! Andrew Edwards's new book explores the monetary roots of the American Revolution. Uncovering an often forgotten history, it shows how debates about who could make money and how, as well as the distributional implications of those choices, shaped colonists' claims to self-determination.
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Current ScholarshipMoney and the Making of the American Revolution
Andrew David Edwards
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📣 New scholarship on JM :despite a high degree of convergence within the global central banking community, climate change has generated sharply contrasting approaches. The piece explores the "politics of divergence" between the Fed and the ECB : justmoney.org/why-the-fed-...
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Current ScholarshipWhy the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community
Monica DiLeo, Glenn D Rudebusch, and Jens van ’t Klooster
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢More scholarship! In the 1970s, a struggle over the future of Chilean credit governance ensued as the Unidad Popular government nationalized most commercial banks. Exploring the legal mechanisms used by different parties, Prof. Ahumada reflects on how political forces shape money and banking. 🏦👇
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Current ScholarshipThe Political Economy of Credit: The Unidad Popular and the Chilean Central Bank (1970-1973)
Paula Ahumada Franco
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📣 New special issue in "Critical Historical Studies" on “Early Modern Monetary Relations” justmoney.org/plurality-en...
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Current ScholarshipPlurality, Entanglements, and Empire in Early Modern Monetary Relations – Special Issue
Andrew David Edwards, Ellen M. Nye, Joshua Batts, and Shweta S. Banerjee
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📣 New scholarship by @aurelien-goutsmedt.com & Francesco Sergi : a sharp conceptual reframing of "scientization" in central banking, treating central banks as boundary organizations at the intersection of science and politics. justmoney.org/redefining-s...
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Current ScholarshipRedefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics
Aurélien Goutsmedt & Francesco Sergi
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
📣 New scholarship by Ester Barinaga tracing how a shift from digital to paper currency in rural Kenya sparked a new monetary consciousness : people began to see themselves not just as users of money, but as its issuers. justmoney.org/shock-of-old...
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Current ScholarshipThe shock of the old: How a local currency’s transition from digital to paper deepened monetary conscientization
Ester Barinaga
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📣 New piece of scholarship on the resistance to the Americanization of finance in the Canadian context by @dustinferguss.bsky.social justmoney.org/conceptualiz...
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Current ScholarshipConceptualizing resistance to the Americanization of finance in advanced economy states: The case of the Canadian-dollar system
Dustin Fergusson-Vaux
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📣New scholarship ! Amin Samman builds on Yuran’s "The Sexual Economy of Capitalism" to unpack modern finance and its “obscenity”. justmoney.org/obscene-fina...
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Current ScholarshipObscene Finance
Amin Samman
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📣New scholarship ! "The First and Last Bank : Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons" by Gustav Peebles proposes a community-driven currency to turn atmospheric pollution into a tool for collective climate action justmoney.org/first-and-la...
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Current ScholarshipThe First and Last Bank : Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons
Gustav Peebles
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📢Current scholarship! In "The Myth of Credit Card Competition" @bendinovelli.bsky.social argues that mainstream reform proposals to curb the high cost of credit card payments by increasing competition are misplaced, and that public utility law may hold the key for more promising alternatives. 👇
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Current ScholarshipThe Myth of Credit Card Competition
Benjamin Dinovelli
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨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.🏦🌐
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Current ScholarshipNoisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks
Benjamin Braun & Maximilian Düsterhöft
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Matthias Petel @mpetel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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...
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Toward Structural Climate Reparations? A Legal Agenda to Address the Financial Subordination of the Global South - Climate Law Blog
Legal scholarship on climate reparations has so far focused almost exclusively on financial compensation whereby wealthier nations provide funding to cover the costs of climate-induced disasters in de...
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New scholarship 📣Carla Coburger historicizes the currency hierarchy in Nigeria, excavating its colonial roots justmoney.org/imperial-mon...
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Current ScholarshipImperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria
Carla Coburger
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🚨Fellowship opportunity for aspiring legal scholars from the University of Wisconsin Law School 👇
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AnnouncementHastie Fellowship in Law and the Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Law School
Applications received on a rolling basis until November 16
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📣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...
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Current ScholarshipSharing Risk The Path to Economic Well-Being for All
Patricia A. McCoy
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
📢The call for papers for a new international workshop on Financialization in Latin America has been extended to October 20! More info here 👇
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AnnouncementCall for papers: Financialization Studies in Latin America: Agendas and Perspectives
Call for papers “Financialization Studies in Latin America: Agendas and Perspectives” Abstracts due October 20, 2025
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨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! 👇
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Current ScholarshipHistorical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives: A Preface to the INET Edition
Thomas Ferguson
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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👇
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AnnouncementEighth Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research & Management Conference
October 13-15, 2025, Washington D.C. Streaming available for some sessions
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📢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!👇
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Current ScholarshipThe Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection
Vijay Raghavan
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚨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.
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Current ScholarshipRethinking currency internationalisation: offshore money creation and the EU’s monetary governance
Jens van ’t Klooster & Steffen Murau
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
📢 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-...
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Announcement2025 Annual Conference of NOMOS : Capitalism and Socialism
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy – September 26, 2025, 12:00-6:45 EST
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📣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 .
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American Monetary Institute
The American Monetary Institute is a publicly supported charity founded in 1996. The real outcomes in society are usually determined by the structure of a society’s monetary system.
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
📢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! 📖🏦💰
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Current ScholarshipWho is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada
Dan Rohde
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📢 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...
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AnnouncementUNC Hiring Tenure-Track/Tenured Professor in Banking/Financial Regulation
UNC Professor Opening on Financial Regulation
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨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) 💸🗺️
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AnnouncementFinance and Society conference 2025
Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September
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Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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.
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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Great time to read this great paper
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📢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.
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Current ScholarshipThe Federal Reserve Exception
Benjamin Dinovelli
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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."
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AnnouncementSouth Feminist Futures’ Political Economy Teach-in 26 #: Debt as a form of government
August 21, 1:00 pm UCT Live Streamed through Zoom
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🚨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. 🏦💸
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Current ScholarshipCommunication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easing
Will Bateman
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
📢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.📜💰
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Current ScholarshipMoney as a Practice of Value: Creating a Respiratory System for Capital
Christine Desan
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚨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. 🏦🌎
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Current ScholarshipDollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower
Mary Bridges
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
📢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-...
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Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire? - Law and Political Economy Collective
Join the LPE Collective for a talk from Jamee Moudud on his new book, "Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez Faire?"
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
📢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. 👇
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Current ScholarshipDigitizing the Fisc
Rohan Grey
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🚨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. 📚👇
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Current ScholarshipLegal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: the End of Laissez Faire?
Jamee K. Moudud
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨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! 👇
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Roundtable: Public BankingWhy Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks
Ellen Brown
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
📢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!
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Current ScholarshipMaking Money Modern: Keynesianism and the Search for Noninflationary Growth
Martjin Konings
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 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
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Current ScholarshipUnderstanding Modern Money Theory: Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies
L. Randall Wray
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