Money in the 21st Century
Jamie Morgan | December 2, 2025
With an eye on Stablecoin, what struggles are currently underway to shape the future of money issuance, banking and finance?
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Posts Tagged ‘money’
Value Par Excellence: Money versus Real Values
Anitra Nelson | April 23, 2024
The Past & Present Reading Group is discussing, in the first half of 2024, Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. This work is often considered a crucial read to grasp Marx’s methods of analysis, with Marx diving off Hegel as one might a springboard. Yet our group has immediately plunged into deep swirling [...]
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Real valuism and political economy
Anitra Nelson | March 3, 2022
I find the constant coining of new terms tiresome. But in writing Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy, I felt the need to re-define my nonmarket socialist position in a more constructive and less reactive way as ‘real valuism’, with ‘real value’ as a basic economic term. I hasten to add [...]
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‘Liquidity’, a keyword in the history of capitalism: Introduction
Michael Beggs | June 18, 2019
liquidity, n.: Econ. The interchangeability of assets and money.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2 ed. (1989).You don’t anywhere come right out in the open and say what liquidity is.
Joan Robinson (1935) Letter to John Maynard Keynes.a highly complex phenomenon. Its [...]
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Launch of Money: A Feminist Issue
Lisa Adkins | October 22, 2018
Join Australian Feminist Studies (AFS) and the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney for the launch of AFS’ special issue on ‘Money’. The issue asks: how is money a feminist issue?
Speakers include:
Lisa Adkins (Head of School, [...]
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Quantitative Easing and Corporate Surplus Hoarding in Contemporary Japan
Luciano Carment | May 24, 2018
In 2012, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), launched one of the largest monetary policy experiments in the history of the 21st century. Whilst in the years since the GFC, many countries have engaged in the kind of bond buy-back programs now referred to as quantitative easing (QE), Japan’s is [...]
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An Anthropology of Money
Tim Di Muzio | April 13, 2017
An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it.
The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? Richard Robbins and [...]
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Marxist Monetary Theory
Anitra Nelson | January 25, 2017
Marking the release of Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers by Costas Lapavitsas, I was delighted to be the discussant in the ‘Thinking about Money’ Symposium launching it at SOAS, University of London (18 January).
The Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Senate House) was full and lively [...]
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