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In World War II, the US had a planned economy. Its principles were similar to MMT.

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The revolt from below is forcing a change to the old neoliberal culture of work.

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The Editors ~ A Going Ontology

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Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Susan R. Nembhard ~ The Black Coop Economy

Tawanda Mulalu ∙ Addison Winslow ∙ Mira Lazine ∙ Quinn Soutar

Kyle Flannery ~ Decolonize Board Games!

Mary Steffenhagen ~ Robert Evans, Gonzo Journalist

Joseph Grantham ~ Pharmacy Poems

Robin Eisgrau ~ Life at the Center of the Edge of 90s Music

Alexander Lin ~ Wesley Yang's Cringe Apocalypse

Elizabeth Sandifer ~ Triple Review: Cyberpunk

Jun Kuromiya ~ Barry Jenkins as Auteur

Inflation, Debt, & Planning

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Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

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Tim Di Muzio

Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

Central bankers want to pull on one lever to lower prices; history shows this might raise them

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John Michael Colón and Steve Mann

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

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Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

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The Black Cooperative Economy

Economic democracy and the fight for racial justice

Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Susan R. Nembhard

Since Emancipation, cooperatives have formed the economic backbone of the Black freedom movement. This is their history.

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Fast Cars and Fiat Money

MMT, from neglected theory to influential movement

Steve Mann and John Michael Colón

History of Chartalism Pt. 2 Is there enough money in the world for what we want?

Front Pages Issue 1

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

John Michael Colón and Steve Mann

History of Chartalism Pt. 1 Debates over money are really debates about power, the political order, and economic planning.

Front Pages Issue 1

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Steve Mann

Most people take it as given that printing more money causes inflation, and they can be forgiven for thinking so, as it has been hammered home to them by mainstream economics professors in every econ 101 course the world over for many decades.

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Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique

A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk

Jun Kuromiya

The issue resides not in whether techniques are used, but in how deeply they are developed.

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Permanent Handstamp

Life at the center of the edge of 90s music

Robin Eisgrau

Memories from the life of a music journalist in the era of grunge, riot grrls, and the end of history.

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Bloodless Board Games, Covert Colonialisms

On the imperial gaze in tabletop gaming

Kyle Flannery

We ignore the propaganda potential of board games at our peril. At bottom it's a question of agency.

Back Pages Issue 1 Poetry

Pharmacy Poems

Joseph Grantham

Author Joseph Grantham Joseph Grantham is the author of two books of...

Front Pages

Front Pages Issue 1

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

John Michael Colón and Steve Mann

History of Chartalism Pt. 1 Debates over money are really debates about power, the political order, and economic planning.

Editorials Front Pages Issue 1

Words for our Present Reality

A Modest Proposal for a New and Living Ontology

The Editors

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Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Steve Mann

Editorials Front Pages Issue 1

Socialism with an Anarchist Squint

Authoritarian creep, libertarian socialism, & democratic planning

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The Former Essayist

On the Decline of Wesley Yang

Alexander Lin

What is Wesley Yang’s answer to the question, What happened to Wesley Yang? I realized that this was indispensable to the whole query, even if it wasn’t the solution. I had a Yang-ian feeling that here lay something emblematic about American culture – less in each scene than in the (tragic?) arc of the play.