To fully realize Democratic Public Finance, we must dismantle the foundational legal and ideological structures that uphold Neoliberal Public Finance.

"[H]eterodox traditions tend to naturalize crises as inevitable, rather than mediated social outcomes resulting from contingent political, legal, and ideological conditions."

"For nearly half a century, Democrats have been told to treat fiscal sabotage as an impersonal event—something to adapt to, never contest. Capital flight, credit downgrades, and market volatility were cast not as acts of power but as external shocks demanding austerity management."

Prototyping Democratic Public Finance With the Seattle Loop

Rather than constitutional obligations being constrained by the budget, the budget becomes an instrument for fulfilling constitutional obligations.

From ‘euthanasia of the rentier’ to ‘euthanasia of the investor’ Constitutionalize the ongoing responsibility to socially provision through public spending, rather than any terminal state of what social provisioning must look like.

This but scaled up

"The language of sovereignty ... wish[es] away the challenges and affordances of ecosocial dependence."

The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination

How can novels help us think about money … and maybe even save the planet?

When I was at Princeton, the reigning assumption in its philosophy dept about the relation b/t language-use + semantics was that the former "represented" the latter. Today, more agree that meaning derives from use; a similar lesson must be now learned about money's politically derived content.