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About Maxximilian Seijo

Maxximilian Seijo (@maxseijo) is a Ph. D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He graduated with a BA in Economics and an MA in Film & Media Studies from the University of South Florida. He is co-host of the Money on the Left podcast, junior board member of the Modern Money Network’s Humanities Division, and Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His scholarship focuses on historical intersections between critical theory, modernism and heterodox political economy.
  • Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution with Sibel Kusimba

    Maxximilian Seijo and Scott Ferguson and William Saas

    Money on the Left speaks with Sibel Kusimba, Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of South Florida, about her work on mobile money and digital finance in Kenya. In her recently published book with Stanford University Press titled Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, Kusimba both theorizes and critiques Kenya’s thriving M-Pesa mobile phone-based payment system as a constitutive component of Kenyan social life.

  • Remaking Radicalism with Dan Berger & Emily K. Hobson

    Maxximilian Seijo and Scott Ferguson and William Saas

    Money on the Left is joined by Emily K. Hobson and Dan Berger, coeditors and curators of the recently published collection Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001.

  • Ministry for the Future with Kim Stanley Robinson

    Maxximilian Seijo and Scott Ferguson and William Saas

    Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson joins Money on the Left to discuss his Modern Monetary Theory-inspired “cli-fi” novel, The Ministry for the Future (2020).

  • Heterodox Properties with Lua Kamal Yuille

    Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas and Scott Ferguson

    Money on the Left is joined by Dr. Lua Kamal Yuille to discuss heterodox economics, property law & the politics of vulnerability. We chat with Yuille about her path from law to heterodox economics, and, more specifically, about how Modern Monetary Theory has variously shaped and affirmed her critical perspective toward property law.

  • The Franciscan Invention of the New World with Julia McClure

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    Money on the Left is joined by Julia McClure, lecturer in Late Medieval & Early Modern Global History at the University of Glasgow. McClure’s 2017 book, The Franciscan Invention of the World, draws compelling and confounding conclusions about the role of the late Medieval Franciscans in shaping the modern capitalist and colonialist world. We talk with McClure […]

  • Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode we are joined by Christine Desan, Leo Goettlieb professor of law at Harvard Law School to discuss her excellent book, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism.

  • New Laws of Robotics with Frank Pasquale

    William Saas and Maxximilian Seijo and Scott Ferguson

    Frank Pasquale joins Money on the Left to discuss the legal and monetary politics that will determine the future of automation. Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, Pasquale is author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money  and Information (2015) as well as recently published New Laws of Robotics: […]

  • Public Money, Public Media with Victor Pickard

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    Victor Pickard joins Money on the Left to discuss the public bases and potentials of money and media in The United States. Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Pickard is a prolific researcher and author of over one hundred articles and six books […]

  • What if Everyone on Campus Understood Money?: A Response to Chronicle of Higher Ed Columnist Allison Vaillancourt

    William Saas and Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and Benjamin Wilson

    Let’s give credit where it’s due: After experiencing decades of neoliberal austerity and serving for nearly as long as pawns in tiresome culture wars, public higher education workers know all too well how the money works on our campuses and in our states. Students and alumni are the major sources of revenue; graduate workers and […]

  • Money After Redlining with Rebecca Marchiel

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, Money on the Left hosts speak with Rebecca Marchiel, Assistant Professor of History at University of Mississippi, about her important new book, After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation (University of Chicago Press, 2020). After Redlining tells the story of the anti-racist urban reinvestment movement in early […]

  • Resisting Predatory Finance with Raúl Carrillo

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    Organizer for economic justice and scholar of law, race, and money, Raúl Carrillo, joins Money on the Left to explore the promise of the public money framework for advancing antiracist, anti-imperialist, and democratic politics across the world. We discuss how the public money or MMT perspective shapes his work as an attorney fighting against predatory […]

  • Money, Music & Method with Alex Williams

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    Economist, musician & Money on the Left audio engineer, Alex Williams, joins the podcast to discuss money, music and method in light of Modern Monetary Theory and heterodox economics. At the outset, we chat about methodology and the riddles of “administrative capacity” that drive so much of Williams’ work. Next, Williams guides us through his […]

  • Place, Participation & #Unis4All with Benjamin Wilson

    William Saas and Maxximilian Seijo and Scott Ferguson

    Economist Benjamin Wilson joins Money on the Left to discuss heterodox approaches to place, participation, and the politics of university finance. Associate professor of economics at SUNY Cortland, Wilson received his interdisciplinary Ph.D. from University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), where he took courses with some of the leading lights of heterodox economic theory, including […]

  • Coordination Beyond the Corporation with Sanjukta Paul

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, Maxx and Scott speak with legal scholar Sanjukta Paul about imagining alternative and more just forms of economic association in ways that denaturalize the 20th-century monopolistic firm. The key, Paul argues, is to reveal and contest the public “coordination rights” that legally structure all economic activity. Sanjukta Paul is Assistant Professor of […]

  • #Unis4all: An Open Letter to the U.S. Higher Education Community

    William Saas and Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and Benjamin Wilson

    Universities can immediately bypass feckless state & federal legislatures & finance themselves directly with “Unis” supported by the Federal Reserve For a growing majority of outspoken administrators and faculty, the economic fallout associated with the Covid-19 crisis threatens to catapult U. S. higher education into a draconian age of austerity, layoffs, and closures. The question, […]

  • #MintTheCoin & COVID Relief with the Modern Money Network

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    Rohan Grey and Nathan Tankus join Money on the Left to discuss the flurry of debate about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) arising out of the Coronavirus crisis. We focus, in particular, on the Modern Money Network’s multi-pronged efforts to illuminate and remedy the resulting economic devastation. At the center of our conversation is Rohan’s contribution […]

  • Building Capacity with Money on the Left

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    This month’s Money on the Left episode departs from the show’s regular interview format to reflect on the past, present and future of the Money on the Left project as a whole. We focus, in particular, on a recent special scholarly journal issue dedicated to Money on the Left, which was published by Liminalities: A […]

  • Money on the Left for COLA

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    We, the hosts of the Money on the Left podcast, write to express our solidarity with the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) graduate students participating in an ongoing wildcat strike for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). We extend our full support to not only the 82 UCSC graduate students who the UC administration […]

  • From Liberation Theology to Public Money Creation with Delman Coates

    William Saas and Maxximilian Seijo and Scott Ferguson

    Reverend Dr. Delman Coates joins Money on the Left to discuss why the politics of public money creation are essential for social and spiritual liberation. Dr. Coates holds a Master’s in Divinity from Harvard and a Ph.D. in New Testament & Early Christianity from Columbia University. He currently serves as Senior Pastor at Mount Ennon […]

  • Covering the Paradigm Crisis with Alexandra Scaggs

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    Alexandra Scaggs joins Money on the Left to discuss her experience covering the ongoing paradigm crisis in mainstream economics, central banking and finance—and why leftists should be paying close attention.

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