Working Papers

This theoretical contribution to poverty studies investigates Amartya Sen’s work as a basis for examining poverty.

This paper develops legal and geopolitical ramifications of Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care, my forthcoming book on neochartalist political economy and critical theory. In the paper’s first section, I rehearse the book’s critique…

This paper reorganizes ecological theory around monetary issuance in order to make visible inclusive paths to ecological egalitarianism. It locates a limiting decentralized localism in Post-Earth Day ecological theory, typified in Arne Næss’ ‘deep ecology’ movement…

It is frequently assumed in political discourse that the pursuit of full employment is a fiscal policy matter. However, as the 40th anniversary of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act approaches, an alternative monetary policy approach is proposed that is guided by two seemingly…

Corporate taxation is a perennially controversial topic in American politics. In fact, it may be the tax policy controversy that most Americans are aware of and even have an opinion about.

This paper explores the future of negative interest rates, and considers a number of economic, legal, and institutional objections to the normalization of negative interest rates as part of the monetary policy toolkit.

This paper explores the macroeconomic implications of the global proliferation of mobile finance technologies in developing nations from a modern money theory (MMT)-informed perspective.

Dominant approaches to rural development have proven unable to confront the structural challenges posed by a system where progress itself generates hunger and increasing environmental damage.

This paper critiques Marx’s use of the vampire as a metaphor for capital, by suggesting that cancer offers political economists a more appropriate lexicon to describe capitalism’s exploitative and destructive nature. This argument, however, is not limited to a metaphorical narrative.

The aim of this study is to identify the conditions that are necessary for a paradigm shift in economic and ecological development in both public and private efforts to support and enhance the development of new…