Money on the Left

Edited by Andrés Bernal
with editorial assistance by Richard Farrell




I. Editor's Introduction    [essay/pdf]
Andrés Bernal

II. Postcolonial Money and Internationalism

        a. Confronting Monetary Imperialism in Francophone Africa with Ndongo Samba Sylla     [html]
        b. The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub     [html]

III. The Struggle for Full Employment

        a. Job Guarantee as Historical Struggle with David Stein    [html]
        c. Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell    [html]

IV. Building Capacity with Money on the Left    [essay/pdf]
William O. Saas

V. Money's Origins and Transformations

        a. Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan    [html]
        b. Myth of the Jewish Money Lender with Julie Mell    [html]


VI. Money's Rhetorical Histories

        a. Money Politics before the New Deal with Jakob Feinig    [html]
        b. Colored Property & State Debt with David Freund    [html]


VII. Intraterritoriality: Money, Inclusion, History    [essay/pdf]
Maxximilian Seijo

VIII. Money and Feminist Aesthetics

        a. Gender, Labor, & Law with Emma Caterine    [html]
        b. Ballerinas on the Dole with Colleen Hooper    [html]


IX. Inglorious Basterds: Nazi Desire Fully Employed    [video essay]
Maxximilian Seijo

X. Money, Poiesis, & Analog Mediation     [essay/pdf]
Scott Ferguson



Resources

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<notes on contributors>

» Steven Attewell is adjunct professor of Public Policy at the City University of New York's School of Labor and Urban Studies. His recent book, People Must Live By Work (University of Pennsylvania Press), examines the history of direct job creation programs from the depths of the Great Depression and debates over the Employment Act of 1946 to the War on Poverty and the Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978.

» Andrés Bernal is a lecturer of Urban Studies at CUNY Queens College and doctoral student at The New School of Public Engagement, Division of Policy Management and Environment. His research focuses on the Green New Deal as a site of political communication and policy analysis. He is also a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Missouri Kansas City Department of Economics, and advisor to United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York's 14th Congressional District).

» Emma Caterine is a law graduate and writer with more than a decade of experience working within economic justice, feminist, LGBTQ, and racial justice movements.

» Christine Desan is Leo Goettlieb professor of law at Harvard Law School, and author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford UP, 2015).

» Richard Farrell is a PhD student in the department of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He received an MA in Liberal Arts from the University of South Florida and a BA in Film and Media Studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

» Jakob Feinig is assistant professor of human development at Binghamton University.

» Scott Ferguson is associate professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. He is also Research Scholar the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, co-director of The Modern Money Network Humanities Division, and producer of the Money on the Left podcast. His book Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care was published in 2018 by University of Nebraska Press.

» David Freund is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, and author of Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (U Chicago Press, 2010).

» Colleen Hooper is assistant professor of Dance at Point Park University. Colleen researches the history of public funding for arts programs in the United States from the New Deal through the post War era.

» Fadhel Kaboub is associate professor of economics at Denison University and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.

» Julie Mell is an associate professor of History at North Carolina State University and author of the two volume book, The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender (Palgrave, 2017).

» William O. Saas is assistant professor of rhetorical studies at Louisiana State University. He is also Research Scholar the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, co-director of The Modern Money Network Humanities Division, and producer of the Money on the Left podcast. His research in the subfield of the rhetoric of economics examines how the political economic assumptions of neoclassical economic theory rose to and maintained relative hegemony in U.S. academic and policy-making circles, from mid-20th century to the present. He has authored or coauthored essays in Western Journal of Communication, Quarterly Journal of Speech, symploke, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs.

» Maxximilian Seijo is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He graduated with a BA in Economics, and an MA in Film & Media Studies from the University of South Florida. He is the co-host of the Money on the Left podcast, junior board member of the Modern Money Network's Humanities Division, and research fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.

» David Stein is a Lecturer in the Departments of History and African American Studies at UCLA. He co-hosts and produces Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast with Betsy Beasley.

» Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist and Research and Programme manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Sylla is also the author of many articles and three books, including the recently published L'Arme Invisible de la Francafrique (La Découverte, 2018), or "The Invisible Weapon of Franco-African Imperialism."









Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)

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managing editor: Greg Langner (California State University, Los Angeles)
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