Friday, January 1, 2021

Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan — Scott Ferguson, Maxximilian Seijo, and William Saas

The Money on the Left Editorial Collective presents a classic episode from our archives along with a previously unavailable transcript & graphic art. In this episode, we are joined by Christine Desan, Leo Goettlieb professor of law at Harvard Law School to discuss her excellent book, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism. Desan argues that money is a constitutional project, countering the dubious “commodity” theory common to contemporary economic and legal orthodoxies. Desan develops her constitutional theory of money through rigorous historical examinations of money’s evolution, from medieval Anglo-Saxon communities to early-modern England to the American Revolution and beyond.
Transcript.

Money On The Left
Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan
Scott Ferguson, Maxximilian Seijo, and William Saas

1 comment:

Andrew Anderson said...

Hopefully this will help bring about the abolition of our inherently discriminatory Gold Standard relic banking model, which on its face violates equal protection under the law in favor of the rich.