Mathew Forstater
@mathewforstater.bsky.social
Teaches economics at UMKC, research with Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Black Studies, Buddhism, Poetry, Music, Ecology, Decolonization, Human Rights.
Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Happy to share my latest piece "Decolonise to Decarbonise" published by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia.
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"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."
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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October 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"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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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.
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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October 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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.
If anything deserves more likes and retweets (and serious consideration) than what it’s getting here, it’s this!!!
"[Trump's] agenda only works if there’s nothing else on offer.
Blue Bonds are the counter-offer."
Blue Bonds are the counter-offer."
Blue Bonds Can Stop Trump’s Fiscal Authoritarianism
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Less than a year into his second term, Donald Trump has launched an illegal and (as now) unfeasible mass deportation campaign—one that is tearing apart…
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October 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If anything deserves more likes and retweets (and serious consideration) than what it’s getting here, it’s this!!!
OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE.
- Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman
I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.
(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?
Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
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(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?
Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
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Drum-taps, by Walt Whitman
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September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
OVER THE CARNAGE ROSE PROPHETIC A VOICE.
- Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman
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!
Modern Money!
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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!
Modern Money!
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Block the Bombs Sign-On Letter
Organizations based in Kansas City, MO are coming together under the leadership of Al-Hadaf, a Palestinian-led justice organization, and Jewish Voice for Peace-KC to demand that Rep. Cleaver support H...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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.”
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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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September 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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.”
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www.myjoyonline.com/how-african-...
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.)
September 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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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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.
April 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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.
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
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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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July 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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-...
lpecollective.org/event/legal-...
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!
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!
July 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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!
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!
Professor Ngugi visited Temple University the year this came out, 1986. A Powerful Force of Deep Humanity!
May 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Professor Ngugi visited Temple University the year this came out, 1986. A Powerful Force of Deep Humanity!
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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 !
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.
April 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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 !
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.
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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.
Dr. Josefina Li and committee members following the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, The Quest for a Sustainable and Equitable Society.
April 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Dr. Josefina Li and committee members following the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, The Quest for a Sustainable and Equitable Society.
From Fadhel Kaboub:
April 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
From Fadhel Kaboub:
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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)
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)
April 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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)
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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@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...
March 3, 2024 at 5:54 PM
@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...