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://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
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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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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6h agois there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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This article argues that the neochartalist perspective on money opens up new ways of understanding trust. moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...
Almost a year ago we hosted a screening of this brilliant documentary at our launch event for wherecreditsdue.org. If you missed it, you can now watch the film for free on YouTube 🌈💸🌍⚖️
Modern Money Lab U.S.@mmlusa.bsky.social · 6d ago‘Finding the Money’ is now available to stream for FREE on the Giant Pictures YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3TJ...
‘Finding the Money’ is now available to stream for FREE on the Giant Pictures YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3TJ...
Finding the Money | FULL DOCUMENTARY | Politics/Economics
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While orthodox economists understand money to be largely “exogenous,” rendering it external, scarce, and uncontestable, heterodox traditions celebrate money’s “endogeneity,” insisting that monetary forms are fundamentally social, institutional, and generative. moneyontheleft.org/2026/10/01/e...
Reclaiming Money’s Public Powers for Imaginative Intersectional Politics
Reclaiming Money’s Public Powers for Imaginative Intersectional Politics
By Rob Hawkes Alongside my Money on the Left colleagues Will Beaman and Tyler Suksawat, I recently joined Gus Dunn-Hindle of the Maine People’s Alliance to discuss public money and public banking o…
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‘As Keynes said: “Anything we can actually do, we can afford.”’ The brilliant @sheridanvk.bsky.social at the recent @greenparty.org.uk conference 💚🌍🌱
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 3d agoLet's gooooooo!
Ok so it’s puffin, barn owl, bumblebee, hedgehog… Wait what, Nigel Farage WAS making it up when he said they were replacing Churchill with a beaver?!
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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A Forgotten Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois: Monetary Populism and the Scapegoating of Black Political Life
A Forgotten Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois: Monetary Populism and the Scapegoating of Black Political Life
by Will Beaman In July 1934, W.E.B. Du Bois received a letter from an Atlanta resident named Gus Reich. We are excited to share both Reich’s letter and Du Bois’s short reply below. A lay theo…
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Reparations for Black Americans w/ William A. Darity
Reparations for Black Americans w/ William A. Darity
We’re joined this month by William A. (“Sandy”) Darity to discuss reparations for Black Americans. Sandy Darity is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studie…
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This article originally appeared in 2001 as “Le troc primitif, un mythe fondateur d’une approche économiste de la monnaie,” Revue numismatique 157: 15–32. We thank the author for permission to publish this translation. moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/20/t...
“We’d all like to see less poverty, properly funded/functioning public services, a liveable planet, etc., but what can you do if the markets aren’t in favour? Sure, we can always pay for wars, but a socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable society is unaffordable. Weird, huh?”
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 5d agoMoney is weird
Ferguson re-examines the longstanding debate between endogenous and exogenous money theorists to rethink the foundations of heterodox economic analysis and politics. moneyontheleft.org/2026/10/01/e...
Petition to call American supporters of the UK Green Party “Greenbackers”
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6d agoThat's called Democratic Public Finance.
Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby
Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby (Part 2)
Rob and Scott return to their dialog about modernism, inflation, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated 1925 novel The Great Gatsby (click here for Part 1). During their conversation, our co-hosts fo…
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That's called Democratic Public Finance.
The Green Party's Plan To REVOLUTIONISE The Economy
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When some of you say "there's no money for public libraries etc..." I hope you know that there always is and it's just not prioritized.
None of us is alone; each of us is dependent on others. –Toni Morrison
Decolonizing Money Through Deana Lawson’s “Portal” (Essay)
by Scott Ferguson We owe others our language, our history, our art, our survival, our neighborhood, our relationships, … our ability to defy social conventions as well as support these conventions.…
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What I love about #DPF is that it’s not dependent on #TTR. HT @moneyontheleft.bsky.social CC @rbreich.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
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…
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The left has to articulate a full employment vision where the vision *IS* full employment. Not full employment to achieve some external industrial goals, which has the effect of reifying some jobs as necessary and others as make-work. But full employment because being valued and needed is a right.
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social's body of work on how to redesign public finance is great—and growing. For all those who intuitively already understand that the "how will we pay for it?" question is fake but want to understand how to change the rules of the game, this is IMO the best resource.👇
Municipal Finance
Municipal Finance
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Does it make sense for the public to ask Wall Street for funds in order to provide public services + infrastructure, when the public can create a way to fund itself instead? Of course not—but that's actually what all states + cities with bonds are currently doing. The Loop is how we make a change.
Will Beaman@greenbackbetter.bsky.social · last wk.Get rid of the bond market. No more markets. Sell bonds to a public bank instead and keep the interest in a public account. Do this now.
Despite powerful political, legal, and ideological constraints, all institutions and actors play meaningful roles in monetary generation, rather than functioning as mere recyclers of scarce funds. moneyontheleft.org/2026/10/01/e...
