The Money View Reading Group is starting George Pantelopoulos's "Between Payments and Credit: An Introduction to the IOU Economy." Our first session is this coming Tuesday, March 10th, at 2pm EDT.
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I recently joined Julian Vigo on her Savage Minds podcast to discuss UBI and jobs (and MMT).
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New blog post from my colleague Derek Van Gorder!
"Overemployment may already be the problem we should be worrying about—not joblessness."
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I wrote a guest blog post for the Feasta blog.
"People need money. They don’t need to be exploited. And we certainly don’t need to pretend to exploit people as an excuse to hand them money."
www.feasta.org/2026/01/30/b...
The Money View Reading Group is starting Joseph Schumpeter's "Treatise on Money." Our first session is next Monday, January 12th, at 2pm EST.
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In my new working paper, "Keynesianism's Labor Problem," I argue that thinking of people as workers leads us to get economic theory wrong.
This is a revised version of what I presented at the BIEN Congress in Brazil
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The Money View Reading Group is starting a new book! Our first session on Calomiris and Haber's "Fragile By Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit" (2014) is this coming Monday, November 17th, at 2pm EST.
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The Money View Reading Group is starting a new book! Our first session on Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times" ([1994] 2010) is next Monday, October 20th, at 2pm EDT.
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Latest piece on UBI here:
www.greshm.org/blog/we-must...
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I have a new blog post on the difference between Guaranteed Income and Universal Basic Income.
"Treating the symptoms of a broken system is a far different project from radically restructuring the system itself."
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Next Tuesday, August 12th, at 4 pm EDT, The Money View Reading Group is starting Kenneth Rogoff's new book, "Our Money, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance."
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Does UBI solve a problem, or does it serve a function? UBI allows us to distribute money while allocating labor more efficiently.
"The more efficiently we can exploit people, the less we have to exploit them."
If you're serious about environmental impact, then you should be serious about UBI.
"Have we unwittingly been overemploying ourselves and overworking our economy, incurring costs to markets and our environment, yet receiving fewer benefits in return?"
www.greshm.org/blog/ubi-and...
"Everyone has their own individual balance of payments: the time pattern of locked-in cash flows and cash commitments. When money is tighter in the market as a whole, those with payments deficits drive up the money rate of interest by bidding for funds."
I've never been against UBI, and I haven't removed any videos. Are you sure you're not confusing me with someone else?
I literally run a nonprofit think tank in support of UBI.
For more info, you can take a look at our website.
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I like this article.
For me, the main issue is that Guaranteed Income merely targets people who are left behind by the current economic system. That might be a worthwhile thing to do, but UBI actually fixes the system.
What are you talking about? What episode? Was it a Boston Basic Income? It wasn't my intention to remove any of them.
I've been an ardent UBI supporter since 2011.
The Money View Reading Group is starting a new book! Our first session on Fernand Braudel's "The Wheels of Commerce" (1982) is this coming Tuesday, May 6th at 4pm EDT.
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And this piece I co-authored with my "roommate" appears in it
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"Individual countries want to believe that they can control their own monetary systems, but they don't have their own monetary systems. There is one system: a global system."
"As long as cash commitments are easy to meet, people will continue entering into new cash commitments. The web will grow more tangled. The dominos will get closer together. This continues right up to the point of financial crisis."
My colleague Derek Van Gorder has written a new working paper explaining the idea of Calibrated Basic Income. There's a level of UBI that maximally helps the economy serve the people. Let's find it.
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"Money, in its ideal platonic form, is a credit claim. Commodity monies such as gold are merely an approximation of that ideal."
The Money View Reading Group is starting a new book! Our first session on "The Empire of Value" by André Orléan (2014) is Tuesday, March 25th at 4pm EDT.
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"Centralization is natural. Money and banking connect everything. Labeling the economy as distinct public and private sectors doesn't change that. Beneath the labels, the monetary system is all one thing."
Phil Jackson's Talk from BIEN Congress 2024: Why Basic Income Is Cooler Than You Think
"If automation is hurting people, then that has to mean that there is something wrong with the economy itself."
