Will Beaman

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Will Beaman, "Fiscal Chronotopes: #ZcavengerHunt, the Zetro Card, and the New Finance Franchise"

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Democratic Public Finance Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance” (DPF). According to this paradigm, money is public cred…

What is Democratic Public Finance?

It seems like the campaign was modeled on Biden 2024

A jury duty type system for Senate voting would be infinitely better than this

Principal Skinner style threat-pleading

… In that sense, they point toward a new finance franchise whose conditions of possibility are distributed and democratic: authority gathered and renewed through rehearsal rather than granted only from above.” 2/2

Brilliant reading of the money-ness of the Mamdani campaign’s Zcavenger hunt and Zetro card: “The question is not whether these practices are really fiscal governance in disguise…They make participation legible, and they can later help make other kinds of fiscal action feel actionable… 1/

Always has been

sharon take: gender is part of the reason decarbonization is so hard

Brilliant, brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

Have you, like me, read @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's proposal for Democratic Public Finance with great interest but also wondered: "So, how do we actually make it happen?"

To me, this piece basically answers that question.

Fiscal Chronotopes: #ZcavengerHunt, the Zetro Card, and the New Finance Franchise By Will Beaman This essay is lightly adapted from a talk delivered at the 2026 American Comparative Literature Association conference. It contributes to a growing body of endogenous money theorizat…

"The [finance] franchise ... is a genre environment that trains what public agency can look like & when it can count. ... I call these patterned organizations fiscal chronotopes: time-space forms through which a world becomes legible as a sequence of events, obligations, and thresholds."

I think the disconnect with MMTers and what Money on the Left is proposing, exists as what the current description of the financial systems allows and the ability of a new description to emerge. What ever the operational reality becomes would be MMT. The descriptions don’t have to remain inelastic.

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"Fiscal chronotope"

Fiscal Chronotopes: #ZcavengerHunt, the Zetro Card, and the New Finance Franchise By Will Beaman This essay is lightly adapted from a talk delivered at the 2026 American Comparative Literature Association conference. It contributes to a growing body of endogenous money theorizat…

✨New Essay!✨

Budgeting is a "chronotope," linking time & space through contestable narrative frames. While neoliberals & fascists lock us in a horizon of scarcity, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social argues, experimenting with chronotopes becomes a polyvalent site for fiscal rehearsals.

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We've just published another brilliant mediation by @greenbackbetter.bsky.social, who creatively unlocks our present fiscal imagination through a subtle re-reading of Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the "chronotope."

Highly recommend!

Edited from a talk I gave recently at ACLA with @videotroph.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, and Duncan Faherty!

I extend Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of chronotopes (genre organizations of space and time) to public spending and fiscal policy.

Presumably AI wrote this too

Clear example of how neoliberal finance culture is a training ground for naïve quislings

A common defense of slavery was to call it a necessary evil or the byproduct of an industrial model.

Choosing to read this as an ironic parody of American chauvinism, with Tehran burning in the background

Periodic reminder that there is no way out of fascism absent a reclaiming of the public—including, most fundamentally, public finance.

When I was in kindergarten an adult asked me how I’m liking school and I responded, “Good. I think school is the best choice for me right now.”

Now, predictably, I’m on Bluesky

This app is great for people who were called an old soul at age 4. It’s a great day on Bluesky. No nonsense

What other food looks this good wrapped in tin foil

Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and fede…

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The fact that gas prices and not rent prices are synonymous with inflation gives the game away