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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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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 3d

📢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!👇

Current ScholarshipThe Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 16d

🚨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.

Current ScholarshipRethinking currency internationalisation: offshore money creation and the EU’s monetary governance

Jens van ’t Klooster & Steffen Murau

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 21d

📢 NOMOS 2025 Annual Conference: Capitalism and Socialism

Panels on value & money

🗓 Sept 26, 12–6:45 PM EST | Hybrid: Harvard Safra Center + Zoom

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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

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 25d

📣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.

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 28d

📢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! 📖🏦💰

Current ScholarshipWho is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢 Sharing a job opportunity: UNC School of Law is hiring a tenure-track/tenured professor in Banking & Financial Institutions Law (start Fall 2026).

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AnnouncementUNC Hiring Tenure-Track/Tenured Professor in Banking/Financial Regulation

UNC Professor Opening on Financial Regulation

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨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) 💸🗺️

AnnouncementFinance and Society conference 2025

Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September

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Will Bateman @wabateman.bsky.social · Aug 25

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.

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨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. 🏦💸

Current ScholarshipCommunication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easing

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Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great time to read this great paper

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢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.

Current ScholarshipThe Federal Reserve Exception

Benjamin Dinovelli

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢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.

Current ScholarshipThe Federal Reserve Exception

Benjamin Dinovelli

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Aug 19

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."

AnnouncementSouth Feminist Futures’ Political Economy Teach-in 26 #: Debt as a form of government

August 21, 1:00 pm UCT Live Streamed through Zoom

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨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. 🏦💸

Current ScholarshipCommunication tools: a genealogy of quantitative easing

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢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.📜💰

Current ScholarshipMoney as a Practice of Value: Creating a Respiratory System for Capital

Christine Desan

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨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. 🏦🌎

Current ScholarshipDollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jul 24

📢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-...

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jul 22

📢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. 👇

Current ScholarshipDigitizing the Fisc

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨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. 📚👇

Current ScholarshipLegal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: the End of Laissez Faire?

Jamee K. Moudud

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨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! 👇

Roundtable: Public BankingWhy Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jun 30

And for a book-length treatment of Professor Konings' account of the 'Bailout State,' be sure to check out his latest book 👇

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jan 9

🚨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.

Current ScholarshipThe Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People

Martijn Konings

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢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!

Current ScholarshipMaking Money Modern: Keynesianism and the Search for Noninflationary Growth

Martjin Konings

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 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

Current ScholarshipUnderstanding Modern Money Theory: Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies

L. Randall Wray

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jun 16

📢Current scholarship! Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that it might uphold removal protections for Federal Reserve Board Members. It's reasoning was concise, yet, Professor Lev Menand argues in this recent piece, it could also stand on shaky ground. Check it out! 👇

Current ScholarshipThe Supreme Court’s Fed Carveout: An Initial Assessment

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨 More scholarship! How can the institutional structures that support monetary hierarchies be morally evaluated? In this article, Professor @aaronjames.bsky.social explores arguments grounded on relational equality, republican anti-domination, and an understanding of money as 'res publica'. More👇

Current ScholarshipThe Credit-Money Hierarchy: A Republican, Egalitarian Appraisal

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · Jun 6

On Thursday, June 12, at 11:00 am, our friends at @justmoney.bsky.social will be hosting an online workshop to discuss Morgan Ricks’s draft chapter on “Financial Market Infrastructure.”

Current ScholarshipJustMoney Online Workshop: Financial Market Infrastructure (Morgan Ricks)

June 12 (Thursday), 2025 at 11:00 am ESTRegistration

Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Jun 5

📢Scholarship! What is money, anyway? In this article, Professor Ingham resumes a longstanding debate on the ontology of money. Defending a credit theory of money, he explores money's dual (abstract and actual) nature and the monetary hierarchies into which different kinds of credit are organized. 👇

Current ScholarshipIs all money credit and is all credit money? Lawson revisited

Geoffrey Ingham