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Recently, the neglected question of why the US government borrows, given that it can print money, has arisen in the context of discussions surrounding a new documentary, Finding the Money. As L. Randall Wray observes in this one-pager, Modern Money Theory has been providing answers to this question for some time; and, he argues, it is a topic that mainstream economists are ill-equipped to address, since very few concern themselves with the monetary operations that underlie the question of why a currency-issuing government issues debt.
I'm delighted to say that my book Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science has just been translated into Chinese, and published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House (copyright 2023).
And that the symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1973 feminist issue of AJS has also been published. This is my contribution:
Connell, Raewyn. 2023. Six revolutions
and perhaps a funeral. In Symposium: Changing Women in a Changing Society
at 50. American Journal of Sociology, vol. 129 no. 3, 925-931.
The award is meant to honor and inspire
Originally published on Global Voices
The Reserve Bank of Australia has published the dates for meetings of the Reserve Bank Board and the release of the Statement on Monetary Policy in 2025.