Where Credit’s Due
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Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice. Reimagining public credit creation and building intersectional solidarity in and beyond Middlesbrough, UK: https://wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/
“My hope is that […] we can build a postnormal, inclusive and sustainable world and unzip our ‘normal-person suits’ (along with our normal-person monetary imaginations) together.”
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4d agoAin't money weird?
“When we understand that inequality and exclusionary violence are built into the logic of private money we can begin to imagine new possibilities for monetary design founded on democratic inclusion, collectivity, and care.” robhawkes.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
“Money is always created (and can only ever make meaningful sense) in a public context; it is issued and redeemed by public authorities, and facilitates transactions only after it has been named as a public unit of account. Therefore, in a profoundly important sense, all money is public money.”
Much of my recent writing has referred to ‘the public money paradigm’, but what does this mean and why is it so important to me, both as a literature scholar and as an advocate for democratic public finance?
Rob Hawkes@robbhawkes.bsky.social · last wk.What is the Public Money Paradigm? Why reconfiguring our understanding of money changes everything, not just how we think about economics. robhawkes.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
‘[W]hen we understand that inequality and exclusionary violence are built into the logic of private money we can begin to imagine new possibilities for monetary design founded on democratic inclusion, collectivity, and care.’ Let’s tell new stories about money. Let’s give credit where credit’s due.
Rob Hawkes@robbhawkes.bsky.social · last wk.What is the Public Money Paradigm? Why reconfiguring our understanding of money changes everything, not just how we think about economics. robhawkes.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What is the Public Money Paradigm? Why reconfiguring our understanding of money changes everything, not just how we think about economics. robhawkes.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
Q: How can we cultivate a paradigm of money founded on democratic inclusion, collectivity, + care—i.e., one of PUBLIC money? A: Part of the way is by seeing, as @robbhawkes.bsky.social notes, how "inequality + exclusionary violence are built into the logic of PRIVATE money," our current paradigm.
Rob Hawkes (@robbhawkes.bsky.social)
Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https:...
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Rob Hawkes@robbhawkes.bsky.social · last wk.What is the Public Money Paradigm? Why reconfiguring our understanding of money changes everything, not just how we think about economics. robhawkes.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
‘Why the Humanities Need Democratic Public Finance’ In response to @theguardian.com’s recent editorial on cuts in universities, I urge those defending the humanities to reject zero-sum austerity and embrace what we @moneyontheleft.bsky.social call Democratic Public Finance (DPF).
Why the Humanities Need Democratic Public Finance
In opposing cuts to jobs and courses, we must reject zero-sum austerity and embrace the public credit at the heart of higher education.
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This thread is a manifesto I can get behind! ✊
Rob Hawkes@robbhawkes.bsky.social · 3w ago“As @dr-nicky.bsky.social explains: ‘[A]nyone can liberate themselves from the strictures of normativity. The already neurodivergent can reconnect with, and cultivate previously suppressed or undeveloped capacities, in order to more fully manifest their potentials for beautiful weirdness…’” 1/
✨ New Page! ✨ We’ve launched a dedicated Arts & Culture page on Money on the Left. We’ve always maintained that arts & culture are integral to political economy, never just an afterthought. This new space gathers all of our cultural critiques, interviews, & essays into one clear home on our site.
Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
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Phantom Beavers and the Politics of Monetary Design
Animal Spirits and Public Promises: Phantom Beavers and the Politics of Monetary Design
By Rob Hawkes There is a spectre haunting Nigel Farage. The spectre of a beaver. On 11 March 2026, the Bank of England announced that, following a public consultation, its next series of banknotes …
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✨ New Essay! ✨ If "money is queer," it's also deliciously weird. Check out @robbhawkes.bsky.social's latest, where he reads Fitzgerald, Larsen & Ford to challenge the austerity of the private money paradigm through the prism of modernist passing, performance, & trust. Please share! 🙌
Weird Epistemologies of Money and Trust in Fitzgerald, Ford, and Larsen; or, Isn’t Money Weird?
By Rob Hawkes What follows is a slightly expanded version of a talk I gave at the ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference at Loughborough University, UK (1-4 July 2026), a collaboration between the UK-based …
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Let's revolutionize public finance. moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/13/i...
I'm very excited to share our recent episode with Walt & Peter from the Public Banking Institute (@publicbanksnow.bsky.social). If you have any interest in democratizing finance, then you won't want to miss this conversation.
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2mo ago✨MotL 91 is live!!!✨ In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking. moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 *Transcript forthcoming ...
“[I]n place of the paranoiac logics of privation and competitive individualism, our shared project […] advances a politics of care, collectivity and interdependence, and underscores the foundational role of public provisioning across the social, economic and aesthetic spheres.”
“The present chapter […] reject[s] the private-money-based economic orthodoxy in favour of the public money paradigm. This, I assert, entails moving away from a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ […] and towards what MotL’s William Saas has called the ‘hermeneutics of provision’.”
Changing the captain will not divert our ship from its iceberg-bound course. What we need now is an entirely new politics of community, sustainability, and care. What we need is Democratic Public Finance. 3/3 moneyontheleft.org/dpf
Democratic Public Finance
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The pa…
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The consequences of this murderous logic are clear: decimated public services, soaring inequality, ecological breakdown, mass incarceration, widespread hatred of the other. 2/3
The austerity mindset traps our politics in a death spiral of exclusionary violence: there is not enough to go round; ‘responsible’ leaders must make ‘tough choices’ about who to leave out. 1/3
Once we understand money as “credit and nothing but credit,” “the overriding question becomes not *whether* but *where* and *to whom* credit is due, and *how* credit issuance can best advance ecosocial justice.” @robbhawkes.bsky.social and @videotroph.bsky.social, “Green-Lighting Gatsby”
Green-Lighting Gatsby: Austere Modernisms, Exuberant Avant-Gardes, and their Orgastic Futures
“Inflation” has been associated, by modernist artists and scholars alike, with a crisis of faith in representation, with exuberance and excess, and with the relativisation and loss of all ...
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Amidst a new wave of excitement surrounding green politics in the UK, especially since Zack Polanski’s election as Green Party Leader in September 2025, Sheridan looks to a future where our economies are redesigned democratically to put people and the planet before profit.
Green Politics and Public Money with Sheridan Kates
Billy Saas and Rob Hawkes speak with Sheridan Kates, ecological economist, activist and, at present, Green Party candidate for Islington Council in North London in the May 2026 local election. In h…
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In her academic and political work, Sheridan rejects both the economics and the language of austerity, and instead prioritises democratic, inclusive, and participatory institution building. moneyontheleft.org/2026/05/02/g...
✨ MotL 90 is live! ✨ moneyontheleft.org/2026/05/02/g... Billy Saas & @robbhawkes.bsky.social speak w/ @sheridanvk.bsky.social, ecological economist, activist & Green Party candidate for Islington Council in North London in the May 2026 local election. Please share! *Transcript forthcoming
How it started…
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2y ago✨ New episode! ✨ In Rob and Scott’s account, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby unleashes rich experimental energies that point beyond the rigid austerity/excess binary through which it is frequently framed. moneyontheleft.org/2024/08/09/m...
We are immensely proud that Sheridan Kates is one of our graduates. She is playing an important role in economic policy development in the England and Wales Greens, is Green Party candidate for Islington Council, and is a tremendous human being. Worth a listen. moneyontheleft.org/2026/05/02/g...
Green Politics and Public Money with Sheridan Kates
Billy Saas and Rob Hawkes speak with Sheridan Kates, ecological economist, activist and, at present, Green Party candidate for Islington Council in North London in the May 2026 local election. In h…
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