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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: https://justmoney.org/
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🚨New on our current scholarship section! How should banking regulations respond to the current climate crisis? In 'Climate Alignment For Banks,' Professor Nadav Orian Peer discusses what a shift from dominant 'climate risk' approaches to promising 'climate alignment' approaches would entail. 🏦🌱

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Speaking of public finance initiatives, the Philadelphia Public Banking Coalition's "Financing Philadelphia’s Future" series will host Tom Sgouros for a public discussion on how pension funds can help provide affordable housing. Happening tomorrow, 4:30-5:00 pm EST through Zoom.

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📢Roundtable alert! In the first installment of our new series on Public Banking, Professor Gerald Epstein surveys recent movements to establish public banks across the U.S., discussing their promise, but also the many challenges they have faced and will likely continue to face in the near future. 🏦👇

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📚Reviewing recent books on the Federal Reserve, Prof. James K. Galbraith's 'The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve' surveys the successes, limitations, and impact of repeated attempts to increase the Fed's Congressional accountability from the 1970s to the present. Check it out! 👇

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📢More scholarship! In 'Spread the Fed,' @roberthockett.bsky.social provides an overview of the political and economic struggles that have shaped the Fed's design and operational frameworks, and charts a new path forward to better balance calls for both productive investment and financial stability👇

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Errata: The summer school will be held on JUNE 5-7, not July. Apologies for the confusion!

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Event alert! 🚨Entitled 'Rethinking Capitalism: "the Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity",' this talk organized by the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies will discuss Prof. Fred Block's new book with a stellar lineup of commentators. Feb. 7, 1:00 pm @ The New School. 👇

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📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org database. We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)

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☀️📖The Political Economy of Finance Summer School is back! Its 2025 edition will be held on July 5-7 at Brown University. Good opportunity for PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows, and early career scholars interested in the intersection of political economy and finance. Applications due March 1!

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📢Job opportunity! The Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School is hiring a full-time Executive Director to join this summer. Position open for people with a background in academia and/or public policy and a JD, PhD or equivalent. Applications are received on a rolling basis.

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🚨Call for submissions! The Treasury Historical Association's 1500 Penn Prize awards a journal article or doctoral dissertation exploring the history of the U.S. Treasury. Submissions due February 15, 2025.

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📢Call for Papers for the Methodological Pluralism in Critical Finance Research conference to be held on July 3-4, 2025 at Goethe University Frankfurt. Great opportunity to discuss the multiple different research tools and methods used in critical finance scholarship today. Abstracts due Feb. 15!

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🚨Current scholarship! What explains that governments routinely bail-out financial institutions while scaling back social policies in the name of austerity? @mkonings.bsky.social's 'The Bailout State' traces the rise of a system that exacerbates inequality in the name of macroeconomic stability.

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New book alert! 🚨 In 'Promise to Pay', Katie Moore explores the rise of paper money in colonial America. Showing how, through monetary innovation, colonial governments reshaped social ties and power structures, the book is an insightful study of money as a governance mechanism. 📖💸 Check it out!👇

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How should monetary policy be governed in a healthy democracy? In her book, Leah Downey analyzes money creation through the lens of democratic theory. Scrutinizing central bank independence, she explores how modern democracies can benefit from expertise without ceding control to unelected experts.👇

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📢Current Scholarship! In a new policy brief, Thomas Marois, @argungen.bsky.social, Lavinia Steinfort & María José Romero explain why a global financial ecosystem based on accountable collaboration between the world's public banks might hold the key to financing green and just transitions.🌱

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In case you missed it, the video for Nadav Orian Peer and Jacob Warren Carl’s talk on climate policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the recent election is now available courtesy of Colorado Law. Check it out! 👇

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🚨Current scholarship alert! Is the Fed constitutional? How do recent Supreme Court decisions on the authority and independence of federal agencies impact the Fed and what does that tell us about the Court itself? Daniel Tarullo tackles these questions in The Federal Reserve and the Constitution 👇

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📢Coming soon - A new Just Money Roundtable is in the works! This time, we'll discuss Public Banking with a stellar lineup of both renowned scholars and policy advocates. Stay tuned!

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Vanderbilt University's Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator is hiring! Different positions now open for those interested in political economy and regulatory policy (Director of Comp. & Reg. Policy and Fellow in Networks, Platforms & Utilities Law may be of special interest if working on money and banking)

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The Banking & Finance Law Review announced three exciting opportunities for scholars and law students interested in the intersection of law and FinTech. Submissions for their 7th Annual FinTech Issue, the BFLR FinTech Fellowship, and the BFLR Law Student FinTech Writing Program are now live! Info👇

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📢More scholarship coming your way! In 'The Bank of the People' @danrohde.bsky.social explores Upper Canada’s Reformers' attempt to establish a publicly accountable monetary institution in the late 1830s, amidst deeper debates about the nature of money and democratic governance. Check it out! 👇

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📖 Looking for some weekend reading? Check out Professor @stomarova.bsky.social's 'Public Banking as an Institutional Design Project!' Examining public banking's characteristic features and design elements, the article provides a blueprint for the further development of publicly oriented finance.

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🚨 Call for Papers for the 7th Law & Macroeconomics Conference to be held on January 6-7, 2025 at the University of Michigan! Great opportunity for scholars from different disciplines including law, macroeconomics, history, political science, and sociology. Papers due October 13, 2024. More info 👇

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Closing our central banking & the climate crisis roundtable with a bang! Read Professor Josh Ryan-Collins's take in "Guiding Credit for the Climate Transition: the Role of Central Banks". Learn more below! 👇

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🚨 Current Scholarship! In 'Plastic Capitalism' Professor @seanvanatta.bsky.social showcases how, through financial innovation and navigating an evolving legal landscape, banks built the credit card industry and ushered a new era of consumer debt and instability in the process. Check it out!

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New in our Current Scholarship section: Check out "Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet." In this new book, Samantha Power and Leon Seefeld explore Bioregional Financing Facilities as an innovative way to finance environmental regeneration. More here! 👇

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📢 Last entry in our roundtable about central banking & the climate crisis! This insightful piece is from Jens van ‘t Klooster and Eric Monnet : "Mandates are never narrow: How monetary policy can be green and democratic" justmoney.org/mandates-are...

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Current scholarship! In 'Money and Federalism' @danawrey.bsky.social explores the challenges posed by new private monetary and payment institutions in the context of the U.S.'s unique 'dual' federal/state banking system. Should the U.S. move towards increased federal governance? Find out 👇

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We continue our symposium on central banking in the climate crisis with a piece Steffen Murau, Andrei Guter-Sandu, and Armin Haas titled "Monetary Architecture and the Green Transition: What Role for Central Banks?" justmoney.org/monetary-arc...

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📢New exciting contribution in our roundtable around central banking in the climate crisis ! A piece from Ulrich Volz titled "From market neutrality to carbon neutrality : central banking in times of ecological crisis" justmoney.org/from-market-...

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🚨 Call for Papers! The University of Amsterdam will host an exciting conference on 'Law & (De)Valuation Practices' on October 10-11. 500 word abstracts will be received until June 9!

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The Banking and Finance Law Review has recently extended the deadline to apply for the 2025 version of its FinTech Fellowship program for legal doctorate candidates. Applications are now due June 15. More information below!

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New contribution to our roundtable on central banking and the climate crisis ! A piece from Sarah Bloom Raskin dissecting the intersection between climate change and the Federal reserve mandate justmoney.org/live-the-que...

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New book alert! 🚨 Professor Ester Barinaga Martín’s book, ‘Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future: Money Commons,’ is now available open access.  It explores the logic, design, and implications of municipal currencies, citizen currencies, and cryptocurrencies. More info through the link below 👇

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🚨 New roundtable post! Daniel Sufranski "A Narrow Role with Broad Implications – Climate Change and Central Banking" justmoney.org/narrow-role-...

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Just a friendly reminder that the call for papers for this year's Finance and Society Conference, scheduled for September 12 and 13 at the University of Sheffield, will close next week, on May 1st! More info below 👇

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Second contribution to our roundtable on central banking & the climate crisis ! Monica DiLeo explores the political uncertainties surrounding central bank responses to climate change. 👇 justmoney.org/political-un...

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Today we officially launch the symposium on "Central banking and the climate crisis"! To kick off, we publish the essay from Simon Dikau and David Barmes titled "From financial stability to price stability in sustainable central banking". Check it out below!👇 justmoney.org/from-financi...

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It's here! To close our symposium on Jakob Feinig's Moral Economies of Money, Professor Feinig himself reacts to our contributors' roundtable comments. Check out his response in 'Social Categories as if Money Mattered'! 👇

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Webinar series until June 2024 : Monetary innovations in financial history : Lessons for CBDC design A stellar collection of talks coming up, more here : studistorici.unimi.it/it/deep-work...

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New in our Current Scholarship section, check out "Tinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures: Kenyan local currencies in informal settlements" by Ester Barinaga and María José Zapata Campos!

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Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships – Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. More information : capitalismstudies.org/faculty-and-... Applications due : April 15th, 2024.

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🚨 New roundtable post! In 'Money Talks' @mpeterf.bsky.social situates Jakob Feinig's 'Moral Economies of Money' in a broader debate about what money is and does. In the process, he shows how monetary frameworks, practices, and rhetoric can either reveal or obscure money's democratic potential. 👇

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Tomorrow! The Columbia Center for Political Economy's Political Economy of Liquidity Seminar returns with a session on "Emergency Liquidity Management – Bagehot versus Kindleberger" featuring Professors Perry Mehrling and Waltraud Schelkle. Mon., Feb. 26 12:10 – 1:40 pm EST More information below!

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📖Book Launch: Anush Kapadia - A Political Theory of Money. On March 15, 2024 17:00–18:30 in London. More on the book : www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... More on the event : justmoney.org/book-launch-...

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New contribution to our Moral Economies of Money roundtable! Pierre-Christian Fink's 'Moralizing Money' analyzes some of the book's key contributions, suggests areas for future research, and discusses what the future may hold for democratic monetary-system design. Give it a read!

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This Friday! 📖 Join the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute for a Book Launch Webinar on Professor Gerald Epstein's new book "Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us". A stellar panel will discuss the book and financial system reform!

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