Money on the Left Podcast
1) Defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Tyler Creighton
In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the secon...Show More
2) Graeber's Utopia of Refusal
Will Beaman joins Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson to discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York City. Will and Scott...Show More
3) Radical Finance for America's Schools with David I. Backer
We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press...Show More
4) 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 credit,...Show More
5) One Battle After Another
In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. The ...Show More
6) The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine
We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in th...Show More
7) The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub (New Art & Transcript!)
Money on the Left is proud to publish a remastered version of our third episode (ever!) with Fadhel Kaboub, now with a new transcript and art. Kaboub is associate professor of economics at Denison and...Show More
The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub (New Art & Transcript!)
1:13:17 | Sep 2nd, 2025
8) The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection with Vijay Raghavan
We speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection,” published in Boston College Law Review in...Show More
The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection with Vijay Raghavan
1:23:49 | Aug 1st, 2025
9) (Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust
In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,” which was recently pu...Show More
(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust
1:44:32 | Jul 4th, 2025
10) Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025). The phrase “instit...Show More