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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
"The sovereign is never going to accommodate, never really going to give grace, or maybe rarely and in limited form. Democratic public finance gives us a much broader path with many more forks and possibilities."
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November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"The sovereign is never going to accommodate, never really going to give grace, or maybe rarely and in limited form. Democratic public finance gives us a much broader path with many more forks and possibilities."
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Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work
By Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid & Max Sussman
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By Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid & Max Sussman
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November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work
By Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid & Max Sussman
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By Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid & Max Sussman
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We need public banks that grant, not just extend loans.
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We need public banks that grant, not just extend loans.
Some thoughts what Mamdani can do in NYC.
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 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Some thoughts what Mamdani can do in NYC.
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People should check out post Keynesian economics and other ideas that challenge the objectives of the fiscal establishment.
The economic guidelines that prefer profit for global corporations over people can't solve the issues they created.
I'd also recommend @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.
The economic guidelines that prefer profit for global corporations over people can't solve the issues they created.
I'd also recommend @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
People should check out post Keynesian economics and other ideas that challenge the objectives of the fiscal establishment.
The economic guidelines that prefer profit for global corporations over people can't solve the issues they created.
I'd also recommend @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.
The economic guidelines that prefer profit for global corporations over people can't solve the issues they created.
I'd also recommend @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.
Just say no to leftists who tell you that Mamdani must play by neoliberal rules of public finance. Don’t accept the enemy’s paradigm.
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 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just say no to leftists who tell you that Mamdani must play by neoliberal rules of public finance. Don’t accept the enemy’s paradigm.
Far from a simple celebration, the lecture critically situates JAWS as the first genuine New Hollywood blockbuster and the originator of a distinctly neoliberal aesthetic that would come to dominate Hollywood for the next five decades.
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…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Far from a simple celebration, the lecture critically situates JAWS as the first genuine New Hollywood blockbuster and the originator of a distinctly neoliberal aesthetic that would come to dominate Hollywood for the next five decades.
"In this moment, deferral is really not an option."
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 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"In this moment, deferral is really not an option."
It's time to seize the means of investment.
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
moneyontheleft.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's time to seize the means of investment.
Digging into One Battle After Another
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…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Digging into One Battle After Another
“[W]e need to expand the public’s financial toolkit beyond traditional loans to include grants.”
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
moneyontheleft.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“[W]e need to expand the public’s financial toolkit beyond traditional loans to include grants.”
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This looks like a brilliant plan
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 …
moneyontheleft.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This looks like a brilliant plan
"According to [Democratic Public Finance], money is public credit, a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our needs and build a desirable future."
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 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"According to [Democratic Public Finance], money is public credit, a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our needs and build a desirable future."
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.
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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November 23, 2025 at 3:45 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.
"The Public Banking Act’s proposed changes to the existing financial system are powerful; however, the legislation still operates within a capitalist paradigm of loan-based financing."
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
moneyontheleft.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"The Public Banking Act’s proposed changes to the existing financial system are powerful; however, the legislation still operates within a capitalist paradigm of loan-based financing."
Let's go to the movies.
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 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Let's go to the movies.
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 …
moneyontheleft.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The left needs to get creative about monetary design. There is no other way toward a just transition.
Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
moneyontheleft.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The left needs to get creative about monetary design. There is no other way toward a just transition.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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.
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 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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.
"Today’s 'Uni' currency project […] reimagines the university as a currency-issuing institution, a kind of public or community bank that can create money as a means of provisioning itself and mobilizing campus resources in more democratically accountable ways."
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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November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"Today’s 'Uni' currency project […] reimagines the university as a currency-issuing institution, a kind of public or community bank that can create money as a means of provisioning itself and mobilizing campus resources in more democratically accountable ways."
"[Laissez-faire] never existed. It’s like the foundational myth of capitalism. Even the authors on the left will invoke it."
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November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"[Laissez-faire] never existed. It’s like the foundational myth of capitalism. Even the authors on the left will invoke it."
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Who's afraid of Democratic Public Finance?
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 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Who's afraid of Democratic Public Finance?
The $250 billion video game industry (the largest entertainment industry in the world) has rapidly developed an unregulated banking system.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The $250 billion video game industry (the largest entertainment industry in the world) has rapidly developed an unregulated banking system.
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