Category: Global MMT

Green New Deal: Research, Proposals, Programs, Resolutions & Commentary

A little cleanup was in order for the site’s Green New Deal page. Research, proposals, programs, resolutions & commentary are now in chronological order. While tidying up, I took another look at Green New Deal for Europe and decided to list the names (and Twitter handles) of the many editors and contributors. In the name of useful redundancy, I added the link to the #GlobalMMT Commentary page. Readers may have noticed that material concerning fiscal and monetary policy for a nation not our own, can often be quite illuminating.

I’ll add more Twitter handles as I find them, perhaps with a little help from this Tweet.

Longing for Genuine Global Solidarity

Two events featuring Fadhel Kaboub. Added to #GlobalMMT Fadhel Kaboub’s page, Job Guarantee and Green New Deal.

— Fadhel Kaboub (@FadhelKaboub) Duke Undergraduate Environmental Union March 20,2021 (01:09:00)


Understanding MMT and the Job Guarantee in the Global South with Fadhel Kaboub | Including: Longing for Genuine Global Solidarity — Fadhel Kaboub (@FadhelKaboub) Verbum March 6, 2021 (02:04:18)

Bonus! Kaboub’s YouTube channel here

#GlobalMMT: Monetary Policy & Sovereignty in African Nations

Two articles and a podcast added to #GlobalMMT: Commentary re Developed and Developing Nations
The CFA Franc as a Vivid Symbol of Colonial Continuities in Francophone Africa • Monetary policy in Africa has been dominated by a consensus formed in Europe and the United States. In France’s former colonies in West and Central Africa this has helped preserve the substance of empire long after its formal end.
— Ndongo Samba Sylla (@nssylla) em>Tax Justice @TaxJustice.net 1st Quarter 2021 – pg 5

Africa’s Path Towards Resilience and Sovereignty – The Real Wakanda is Within Reach • Colonialism stripped Africa of agency and confidence as well as material resources. In this article Fadhel Kaboub sets out a path towards independence and prosperity. He calls for a thorough-going rejection of the policy prescriptions offered by the former colonial powers, a renewed faith in the energy and creativity of Africa’s peoples, and a step-by-step programme to build sovereignty through the expansion of domestic production in energy, food and value added goods.
— Fadhel Kaboub @FadhelKaboub Tax Justice @TaxJustice.net 1st Quarter 2021 – pg 14

The Spectrum of Monetary Sovereignty in Developing Nations with Ndongo Samba Sylla and Fadhel Kaboub
— Macro n Cheese: Real Progressives Podcast (53:43)

Also added to Fadhel Kaboub under Primary Sources

Law and Political Economy

Law and Political Economy Projects presents International Law of Money
For the past two decades, the legal construction of money has received increasing attention from scholars of history and (heterodox) economics. Legal scholarship on the international law of money has lagged behind. Yet, it is widely recognized that international monetary dynamics are key to the democracy-curbing effects of neoliberalism as expressed through the ‘Washington Consensus’ and enforced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This panel is aimed at exploring the wider context of the international law of money (which is central to the international dimensions of neoliberalism) encouraging the development of this area of scholarship as a conscious sub-field of international law. Feb 8, 2021 8:00am pacific 90 min

Panel (register and download panelist presentations here)

• John Haskell (University of Manchester School of Law), The Political Economy Turn in International Law and Why Money Matters
• Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima (University of Leeds School of Law; Durham Law School), Legal Political Economy of Sovereign Insolvency Governance
• Nathan Tankus, (Modern Money Network & “Notes on the Crises”),
Monetary Sovereignty and the Federal Reserve’s International COVID-19 Response
• Rohan Grey, (Willamette University College of Law, Modern Money Network, Digital Fiat Currency Institute), The International Law of Digital Currency

Scotland is Part of #Global MMT

Scotland being a good example, at some point I imagine creating a page for each of the countries with an MMT presence. Bill Mitchell has been writing about Scotland — here — for nearly a decade. So that’s a good place to start. Meanwhile, here’s what I’ve add to added to #GlobalMMT: Commentary re Developed & Developing Nations

Scotland
The Case for Scottish Independence with Kairin Van Sweeden Executive director of Modern Money Scotland, works with the Scottish National Party.
— Real Progressives, Kairin Van Sweeden (@IndyAnatomist) Jan 30, 2021 (01:11:50) Transcript available

Nicola Sturgeon indicates a Job Guarantee would be part of a Scottish Green New Deal
— Sean Bell (@SeanCMBell) Commonspace (@TheCommonSpace) Aug 8, 2019

The MMT Podcast #15 Modern Monetary Theory and the economics of an independent Scotland
— Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly talk with Warren Mosler, Bill Mitchell, Chris Cook May 9, 2019 (02:30:43)

Modern Monetary Theory and an Independent Scotland
— Cameron Archibald Bella Caledonia (@bellacaledonia) Jan 7, 2019