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Current ScholarshipVideo: Conference on Public Banking for Community Development Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law Christine Desan, University of New Hampshire Professor Michael Swack, Don Morgan, President and CEO of the Bank of North Ontario

📣A conference on "public banking for community development" was held at Havard Law School, featuring talks by Christine Desan, Michael Swack & Don Morgan. Watch the full recording here: justmoney.org/video-confer...

AnnouncementCall for Papers: Law, Political Economy and the Legal Geography of Money Call for Papers: Law, Political Economy and the Legal Geography of Money (Paris – June 25 & 26)

Call for papers on "Law, Political Economy and the Legal Geography of Money" for a conference to be held on June 25–26 at Sciences Po Paris

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Current ScholarshipMoney and the Making of the American Revolution Andrew David Edwards

🚨Scholarship! Andrew Edwards's new book explores the monetary roots of the American Revolution. Uncovering an often forgotten history, it shows how debates about who could make money and how, as well as the distributional implications of those choices, shaped colonists' claims to self-determination.

Current ScholarshipWhy the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community Monica DiLeo, Glenn D Rudebusch, and Jens van ’t Klooster

📣 New scholarship on JM :despite a high degree of convergence within the global central banking community, climate change has generated sharply contrasting approaches. The piece explores the "politics of divergence" between the Fed and the ECB : justmoney.org/why-the-fed-...

Current ScholarshipThe Political Economy of Credit: The Unidad Popular and the Chilean Central Bank (1970-1973) Paula Ahumada Franco

📢More scholarship! In the 1970s, a struggle over the future of Chilean credit governance ensued as the Unidad Popular government nationalized most commercial banks. Exploring the legal mechanisms used by different parties, Prof. Ahumada reflects on how political forces shape money and banking. 🏦👇

Current ScholarshipPlurality, Entanglements, and Empire in Early Modern Monetary Relations – Special Issue Andrew David Edwards, Ellen M. Nye, Joshua Batts, and Shweta S. Banerjee

📣 New special issue in "Critical Historical Studies" on “Early Modern Monetary Relations”

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Current ScholarshipRedefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics Aurélien Goutsmedt & Francesco Sergi

📣 New scholarship by @aurelien-goutsmedt.com & Francesco Sergi : a sharp conceptual reframing of "scientization" in central banking, treating central banks as boundary organizations at the intersection of science and politics. justmoney.org/redefining-s...

Current ScholarshipThe shock of the old: How a local currency’s transition from digital to paper deepened monetary conscientization Ester Barinaga

📣 New scholarship by Ester Barinaga tracing how a shift from digital to paper currency in rural Kenya sparked a new monetary consciousness : people began to see themselves not just as users of money, but as its issuers.

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Current ScholarshipConceptualizing resistance to the Americanization of finance in advanced economy states: The case of the Canadian-dollar system Dustin Fergusson-Vaux

📣 New piece of scholarship on the resistance to the Americanization of finance in the Canadian context by @dustinferguss.bsky.social

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Current ScholarshipObscene Finance Amin Samman

📣New scholarship ! Amin Samman builds on Yuran’s "The Sexual Economy of Capitalism" to unpack modern finance and its “obscenity”.

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📣New scholarship ! "The First and Last Bank : Climate Change, Currency, and a New Carbon Commons" by Gustav Peebles proposes a community-driven currency to turn atmospheric pollution into a tool for collective climate action

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Current ScholarshipThe Myth of Credit Card Competition Benjamin Dinovelli

📢Current scholarship! In "The Myth of Credit Card Competition" @bendinovelli.bsky.social argues that mainstream reform proposals to curb the high cost of credit card payments by increasing competition are misplaced, and that public utility law may hold the key for more promising alternatives. 👇

Current ScholarshipNoisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks Benjamin Braun & Maximilian Düsterhöft

🚨More scholarship! In 'Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats' @benbraun.bsky.social & Maximilian Düsterhöft comb more than 11,000 speeches by 18 central banks to explore whether CBs discuss politically controversial topics, shedding light on how CBs strategically interact within their social context.🏦🌐

Toward Structural Climate Reparations? A Legal Agenda to Address the Financial Subordination of the Global South - Climate Law Blog Legal scholarship on climate reparations has so far focused almost exclusively on financial compensation whereby wealthier nations provide funding to cover the costs of climate-induced disasters in de...

In my post for the Sabin Center’s Climate Law Blog series on climate reparations, I argue for a structural approach of reparations focusing on dismantling the financial subordination of the Global South embedded in debt relations

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Current ScholarshipImperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria Carla Coburger

New scholarship 📣Carla Coburger historicizes the currency hierarchy in Nigeria, excavating its colonial roots

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AnnouncementHastie Fellowship in Law and the Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Law School Applications received on a rolling basis until November 16

🚨Fellowship opportunity for aspiring legal scholars from the University of Wisconsin Law School 👇

📣New scholarship “Sharing Risk: The Path to Economic Well-Being for All” by Patricia McCoy. How is financial risk distributed and off-loaded on household ? How could we share risks differently?

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AnnouncementCall for papers: Financialization Studies in Latin America: Agendas and Perspectives Call for papers “Financialization Studies in Latin America: Agendas and Perspectives” Abstracts due October 20, 2025

📢The call for papers for a new international workshop on Financialization in Latin America has been extended to October 20! More info here 👇

Current ScholarshipHistorical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives: A Preface to the INET Edition Thomas Ferguson

🚨Researching issues related to American Political Economy? Professor Thomas Ferguson's recent Working Paper provides a valuable introduction to help researchers navigate the Institute for New Economic Thinking's new database of pre-F.E.C. political finance records. Check it out! 👇

AnnouncementEighth Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research & Management Conference October 13-15, 2025, Washington D.C. Streaming available for some sessions

DebtCon kicked-off today for three days of interdisciplinary discussions on sovereign debt with stellar speakers! In case you can't make it to D.C. in person, some sessions will be streamed for registrants. More information below👇

Current ScholarshipThe Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection Vijay Raghavan

📢More scholarship! In this article, Prof. @vijaybk.bsky.social rethinks the role of well-designed consumer financial protection institutions as a mechanism to counter the inherently unequal distribution of power coded in our financial system's legal design. Check it out!👇

Current ScholarshipRethinking currency internationalisation: offshore money creation and the EU’s monetary governance Jens van ’t Klooster & Steffen Murau

🚨Scholarship! How does a currency become widely adopted internationally? Focusing on the euro, Profs. @jvtk.bsky.social & @steffenmurau.bsky.social highlight the role of state-led governance. Successful currency internationalization, they suggest, is seldom a purely market-driven phenomenon.

Announcement2025 Annual Conference of NOMOS : Capitalism and Socialism American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy – September 26, 2025, 12:00-6:45 EST

📢 NOMOS 2025 Annual Conference: Capitalism and Socialism

Panels on value & money

🗓 Sept 26, 12–6:45 PM EST | Hybrid: Harvard Safra Center + Zoom

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📣The 2025 Conference of the American Monetary Institute is coming soon! Two weekends (Sept 19–21 & 26–28) around the theme of “Avarice, Power, and the Future of Money.” Register now at monetary.org
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Current ScholarshipWho is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada Dan Rohde

📢New on our Current Scholarship section: How does a central bank's legal design determine which interests it serves? @danrohde.bsky.social dives deep into this question looking at the Bank of Canada's founding debates. Check it out! 📖🏦💰

AnnouncementUNC Hiring Tenure-Track/Tenured Professor in Banking/Financial Regulation UNC Professor Opening on Financial Regulation

📢 Sharing a job opportunity: UNC School of Law is hiring a tenure-track/tenured professor in Banking & Financial Institutions Law (start Fall 2026).

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AnnouncementFinance and Society conference 2025 Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September

🚨New international Finance and Society Conference happening in Copenhagen in September 11-12! Keynotes by Christian Borch (University of Copenhagen), Fabian Muniesa (Mines Paris – PSL), and @vanessahistory.bsky.social (Yale University) 💸🗺️

I'm really pleased to be featured in @justmoney.bsky.social's current scholarship post. Looking at the Bank of Japan and Fed archives, I argue that QE was always linked to public-sector support, but that effect was deliberately suppressed in central banks' public research and other comms.

Great time to read this great paper

Current ScholarshipThe Federal Reserve Exception Benjamin Dinovelli

📢More scholarship! @bendinovelli.bsky.social's timely paper revisits the Federal Reserve's ostensibly unique status among administrative agencies. It examines SCOTUS' attempt to except the Fed from case law limiting agency independence, with implications for Fed Governors' legal removal protections.