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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Recommend this book combining my favorite things—Philly, economics, humor, baseball and the host of the Hittin’ Season pods The Dirty Inning and Absolutely Hammered! Must review it for an economics journal!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My great good friend, also a Philly transplant to KC, Jim Simmons made the transition peacefully today after a courageous fight with the big C. His powerful Voice and tremendous Presence will remain with us forever! 🔥💯♥️🙏💥🌞🌍🌟🥨

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Capitalists and Socialists both think money is “real.” 😂

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

From Fadhel Kaboub: I’m honored to be recognized by the New African Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Africans in 2025 under the Thinkers & Opinion Shapers category. 100.newafricanmagazine.com

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

From Caroline Hossein: “An honour to be speaking on feminist and solidarity economics at the Ministerio de Igualdad y Equidad in Colombia 🇨🇴.”

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Ely Melchior Fair defending his UMKC Economics doctoral dissertation last night with committee members Sirisha Naidu (Economics), Michael Frisch Urban Planning & Design), Zhongjin Li (Economics, on zoom), and Mathew Forstater (Economics). Congratulations!!!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. www.isis.org.my/wp-content/u...

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"Th[e present] system fosters a negative feedback loop where public entities, starved of democratic financing tools, are forced into a politics of austerity, while private markets are prone to credit-fueled bubbles."

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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only “modest gestures of care”—and who seem to have moved directly to “mourning” our inevitable environmental losses—Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work.

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The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in…

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If anything deserves more likes and retweets (and serious consideration) than what it’s getting here, it’s this!!!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE. - Walt Whitman

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Anyone in the KC area, there is a screening of Finding the Money, the MMT documentary, followed by a panel discussion with the audience moderated by myself at Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church, 9400 Pflumm Road, Lenexa, Kansas Thursday, September 18, 7pm. UMKC Economics! Modern Money!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Denison University Professor/GISP President Fadhel Kaboub: “Fiscal space is constrained by potential inflation risks…The good news is that productive capacity is producible, and its production creates even more jobs.” www.myjoyonline.com/how-african-...

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How African Nations can fund their own Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam - MyJoyOnline

Let's look at a monumental example that's literally reshaping the landscape of East Africa: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Congratulations to Dr Vishal Choudhury for successfully defending his UMKC doctoral dissertation yesterday, “Three Essays in Political Economy.” A very “Happy to You!” (with Vishal and family in KC a month ago.)

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Thank YOU! Honored to build on what you’ve pioneered with the Cortland Uni currency—a concept and model that travels well, as my students are quick to point out.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Discussion of Jamee Moudud’s new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism sponsored by the Law and Political Economy Collective. Please consider registering and sharing with others. July 30, 2025 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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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

earth’s wretched soon to be stretched to reach necessary for the change! end the strange alignment of breakback for the riffraff! be no more mindslave of the jiffypop member-only stinkflop to satisfy limpstick! the call to spread and the song of the dirt and sky!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Professor Ngugi visited Temple University the year this came out, 1986. A Powerful Force of Deep Humanity!

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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Shout out to UMKC @mathewforstater.bsky.social and @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social for getting all this started with the buckaroo and Denison dollars! The UNI grows !

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Dr. Matthew Robinson, UMKC Economics & Geosciences, successfully defended his interdisciplinary PhD dissertation, Public Money and Reparations, supervised by Dr Linwood Tauheed, committee includes Scott Fullwiler, Bill Black, Carolyn Davies and Mathew Forstater.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Dr. Josefina Li and committee members following the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, The Quest for a Sustainable and Equitable Society.

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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The United Nations has designated it as the Year of #Cooperatives! Our book, "Beyond #Racial Capitalism," coedited w/ Sharon Wright Austin UF and Kevin Edmonds #UofT, delves into #membership institutions. Consider citing & incorporating it into classes. You can access (lnkd.in/g_98spgg)

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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

@msmagazine.bsky.social Founded by and for #feminists - Rickey Gard Diamond of An Economy of Our Own #aeoo wrote a story about the work I do, here is the link: msmagazine.com/2023/06/28/f...

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Oleksandr (“Alex” or “Sasha”) Valchyshen successfully defended his economics doctoral dissertation, Reconsidering Capital Flows and Mobility, today at UMKC. So happy to be associated with this incredible analytical achievement and this amazing human being! x.com/messages/med...

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Read Walter Rodney on his birthday and everyday. There’s still so much unpublished and understudied material in his archive in Atlanta, all so prescient, like what Chinedu Chukwudinma dug up on Rodney and Palestinian liberation. roape.net/2023/11/10/w...

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Walter Rodney and Palestinian Liberation - ROAPE

In the context of Isreali’s mass murder of Palestinians, ROAPE’s Chinedu Chukwudinma writes about Walter Rodney’s uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Rodney’s defence of the methods use...

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Fadhel Kaboub’s latest blog is a poem called Longing for Genuine Global Solidarity, along with a music video he produced with AI. Enjoy and share with your friends! globalsouthperspectives.substack.com/p/longing-fo...

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Longing for Genuine Global Solidarity

A bit of poetry (and music) to restore hope and sanity

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Africa’s hidden Wakanda is real! Fadhel Kaboub reveals the Real Wakanda Roadmap in this 3-minute video! Take a listen 👇🏼 youtu.be/vS6P_h6Soio

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Africa’s hidden Wakanda is real! Fadhel Kaboub reveals the Real Wakanda Roadmap in this 3-min video!

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

In the window display at the Amherst Bookshop.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Much like 19th-century canal, railroad, and mining companies, as well as 21st – century financial technology and cryptocurrency companies, gaming giants are engaging in private monetary governance. moneyontheleft.org/2025/03/02/g...

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

In the window of the Amherst bookstore.

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Mathew Forstater @mathewforstater.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Gettin’ my tonsils out tomorrow, Appendix was last week. Soon I’ll just be a skull on a pillow, I’m footless and fancy free! I’m in love with an anesthesiologist, I don’t know what to do. I’m crazy ‘bout an anesthesiologist, Think I’ll have another body part removed.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Check out our new UNI CURRENCY PROJECT resource page. There, you'll discover a one-stop-shop for all texts, podcasts, & artworks related to Money on the Left's proposal to democratize & expand public university finance.

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The Uni Currency Project: Resource Page

Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Finding the Money" is now free on YouTube. This is a documentary about Modern Monetary Theory & its policy implications. Featuring MMT experts Stephanie Kelton, L. Randall Wray, Warren Mosler, Fadhel Kaboub, Pavlina Tcherneva, Lua K. Yuille & Mathew Forstater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrje...

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