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✨Democratic Public Finance✨
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Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
✨Democratic Public Finance✨
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance."
Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 !
*Transcript forthcoming
Coordination rights are fundamental to the process of building resilient communities and determine whether social provisioning systems are “collective” or “concentrated.”
Food, Money & Democracy
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2022)ISSN 2833-051X Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of WorkBy B…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Coordination rights are fundamental to the process of building resilient communities and determine whether social provisioning systems are “collective” or “concentrated.”
Dear President Shitcoin,
The Unofficial Lives of Public Money
by Will Beaman Recent Money on the Left proposals for endogenous credit campaigns—like Unis or Blue Bonds—often run headlong into an unspoken but deeply rooted distinction between “official” and “u…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Dear President Shitcoin,
Film Theory of the State: A classic mind bender from our archives.
21 – Film Theory of the State
In this episode, cohosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo reflect on some ill-fated responses to the right-wing insurrection at the Capitol, utilize feminist psychoanalysis to art…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Film Theory of the State: A classic mind bender from our archives.
Billy Saas and guest-host Ben Wilson speak with Martha McCluskey about the ins and outs of the Law & Political Economy movement.
Law & Political Economy with Martha McCluskey
Billy Saas and guest-host Ben Wilson speak with Martha McCluskey about the ins and outs of the Law & Political Economy movement. McCluskey is Professor Emerita at the University at Buffalo Scho…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Billy Saas and guest-host Ben Wilson speak with Martha McCluskey about the ins and outs of the Law & Political Economy movement.
We speak with Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, about his book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
Democracy in Power with Sandeep Vaheesan
We speak with Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, about his forthcoming book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States (University…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We speak with Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, about his book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
A History of De-enshittification
Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell (New Transcript!)
This month we are re-publishing our conversation with Steven Attewell along with a new written transcript and episode graphic. Attewell is author of the incredible book, People Must Live by Work: D…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A History of De-enshittification
WWDITS
Modern Movie Theory: What We Do in the Shadows
Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) is joined by Robyn Ollett (@robynollett) and Rob Hawkes (@robbhawkes) to discuss What We Do in the Shadows. Citing Robyn’s interpretations of vampirism in The New Queer…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
WWDITS
We speak with Tim Ridlen about his new book, Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia (Rutgers University Press).
Artists in Academia with Tim Ridlen
We speak with Tim Ridlen about his new book, Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Ridlen hol…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We speak with Tim Ridlen about his new book, Intelligent Action: A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia (Rutgers University Press).
Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press).
Odious Debt with Edward Jones Corredera
Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024). What are fallen ty…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press).
Coalition is shifting from ritual pledge to daily practice—who can speak for whom, in which rooms, without pretending to be the same.
Coalition as Credit
Reading the Mamdani-Lander-Warren Coalition as a Credit Event by Will Beaman How do you keep governing when opponents try to stage a fiscal loss? In New York, that will be the fight: not just what …
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November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Coalition is shifting from ritual pledge to daily practice—who can speak for whom, in which rooms, without pretending to be the same.
In this episode, we share Part 2 of our coverage of The Black University & Community Currencies workshop.
The Black University and Community Currencies, Pt. 2
In this episode, we share Part 2 of our coverage of The Black University & Community Currencies workshop (Click here for Part 1). Held April 25, 2025 on the campus of Morehouse College, the wor…
moneyontheleft.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
In this episode, we share Part 2 of our coverage of The Black University & Community Currencies workshop.
During our conversation, Arrington explores the extraordinary achievements and tribulations of New Deal women artists and administrators.
Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington
We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
During our conversation, Arrington explores the extraordinary achievements and tribulations of New Deal women artists and administrators.
Ferguson connects JAWS's immersive aesthetic to the film's narrative treatment of money as an essentially private, scarce, and politically unanswerable thing.
JAWS at 50: Birth of the Neoliberal Blockbuster
In honor of the 50th anniversary of JAWS (1975), we are proud to publish a 2020 lecture about Steven Spielberg’s film by Scott Ferguson. Far from a simple celebration, the lecture c…
moneyontheleft.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Ferguson connects JAWS's immersive aesthetic to the film's narrative treatment of money as an essentially private, scarce, and politically unanswerable thing.
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025).
Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025). The phrase “ins…
moneyontheleft.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025).
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 the Climate Crisis.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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 the Climate Crisis.
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Our cohosts speculate about the meaning of One Battle's rich aesthetic choices, including the mobile telephoto lenses that transform a conventional car chase into a dizzying allegory of an American culture unclear about its driving motivations and aims.
One Battle After Another
In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…
moneyontheleft.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Our cohosts speculate about the meaning of One Battle's rich aesthetic choices, including the mobile telephoto lenses that transform a conventional car chase into a dizzying allegory of an American culture unclear about its driving motivations and aims.
Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance”
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance”
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
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November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us
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The end of this article was super interesting! It reminds me of @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's article about democratic public finance.
It's been interesting seeing the layers of the global economy peel back to show how it has always been intertwined with politics
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...
It's been interesting seeing the layers of the global economy peel back to show how it has always been intertwined with politics
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...
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 …
moneyontheleft.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The end of this article was super interesting! It reminds me of @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's article about democratic public finance.
It's been interesting seeing the layers of the global economy peel back to show how it has always been intertwined with politics
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...
It's been interesting seeing the layers of the global economy peel back to show how it has always been intertwined with politics
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...
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Why I use the hashtag
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@claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social
@wbai.org
#ArturoOFarrill
#AfroLatinJazzAlliance
#CasaBelongo
#MusicEducation
#LEAPnyc
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Why I use the hashtag #MayorCardamom
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"In NYC ... there is an immediate opportunity to reduce Ponzi austerity extraction by for-profit EdTech from New York City schools, and potentially to make a significant move towards socializing educational technology by providing platforms and models that can be exported and imitated anywhere."
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"In NYC ... there is an immediate opportunity to reduce Ponzi austerity extraction by for-profit EdTech from New York City schools, and potentially to make a significant move towards socializing educational technology by providing platforms and models that can be exported and imitated anywhere."
In conceptualizing Democratic Public Finance, Money on the Left builds on insights from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT); but we also push beyond MMT’s delimitation of public money creation to the alleged sovereignty of the nation-state.
Democratic Public Finance
Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance” (DPF). According to this paradigm, money is public cred…
moneyontheleft.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In conceptualizing Democratic Public Finance, Money on the Left builds on insights from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT); but we also push beyond MMT’s delimitation of public money creation to the alleged sovereignty of the nation-state.
"[A] job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work."
The enshittification of labor
Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"[A] job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work."
"The Paradox of Political Thrift": A Thread 🧵
“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole.
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
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From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
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The Paradox of Political Thrift
By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"The Paradox of Political Thrift": A Thread 🧵