My piece for Public Seminar: The Decline of Colombia’s Centaur State By launching a general strike, a broad coalition of Colombians has invited state violence—but united to demonstrate what real democracy looks like publicseminar.org/2021/06/the-de…

Definitely a book for all the people interested in currency&empire. Excited to see it in print soon.

Another one that looks perfect for the currency&empire folks. Thx, Michael!

The Ruble has a cover global.oup.com/academic/produ…

reading papers for the fab currency and empire currency&empire workshop this weekend & i’m genuinely thrilled to be back in the city where my heart lives and rats die another day

Currency & Empire Fall Workshop is underway! Our first panel features Mara Caden, Catherine Desbarats, Ramaa Vasudevan and @uglyhistories.

Panel #2! Mae Ngai moderates Shweta Banerjee, Kevin Donovan, and Matt Shutzer! On mints in India, feudalism in Indian coalfields, and social labor in East Africa.

Panel 3: Sanjay G Reddy moderates Dr. Andrew David Edwards, Tinashe and Ellen M. Nye! On (not) defining money and the American revolution, British imperial investment and colonial debt, and localization of global coinage in the early modern Ottoman Empire.

Final panel for today with Michael Ralph (he/him/his) commenting on papers on the USA’s hoard of gold from Gustav Peebles, stamped cash in the Spanish Empire from Kris Lane, and the South Asian currency crisis of 1930 From meghna chaudhuri!

Thanks for the great conversation, C&E!

A prototype for retail CBDC is called project Aurum, the latin word for gold. "...#digitalcurrency issued under the auspices of a central bank must be as robust and trustworthy as gold." Mercantilism lives. currency&empire Gustav Peebles

Thank you everyone for such a successful workshop!

The story of Monopoly has always carried a poignant and dark message-- a Quaker folk game (created by a woman) meant to be freely shared and to teach the dangers of capitalism gets... monopolized. Now my wife and her colleagues at @insigniafilms have brought it to life!

✨New Superstructure Vertical piece!✨ tinyurl.com/5h394tbk Approaching the Silicon Valley Bank crisis from a critical historical perspective, Dan Rohde revisits the contested public origins of Canadian banking in order to imagine fresh possibilities for money's future.

Cory Doctorow joins Money on the Left to discuss what Modern Monetary Theory means for building digital commons. moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/01/bui…

Announcing a call for a papers for a special issue on Gendering the Debt Crisis: Feminist Political Economy Perspectives on Debt and the Global South. Proposals are due August 15! bit.ly/RFEC

Fired up to be launching our series for this academic year with Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj TODAY at noon, EST. His paper is entitled, "Decolonizing Money: Rhizomatic Currency and Self-Organizing Payment Networks". DM for the zoom link (or check your email if you're already onboard)