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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.
  • Neoclassical Marxism (Christmas Special) with @NMarxism

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    This December, we bring you a special Christmas episode of our program, featuring the enigmatic operator behind the increasingly popular Twitter account known as “Neoclassical Marxism,” or @NMarxism. @NMarxism is a deeply satirical Twitter project, which deploys Modern Monetary Theory and some very dark humor to critique the neoclassical economics and neoliberal assumptions that unconsciously […]

  • MMT & the Art of Social Practice with Vienne Chan (Live)

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this special live episode of Money on the Left, artist and researcher Vienne Chan joins us to talk art, politics, and money—and how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) reconfigures the boundaries between all three. Recorded at the Third Annual International Conference on Modern Monetary Theory held at Stony Brook University, our conversation focuses specifically on […]

  • No Depression in Heaven with Alison Collis Greene

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode of Money on the Left, we speak with historian Alison Collis Greene about her book No Depression in Heaven with an eye toward contemporary debates around the Green New Deal. Subtitled The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, Greene’s book critiques what she calls the […]

  • Money Politics before the New Deal with Jakob Feinig

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    Jakob Feinig, assistant professor of human development at Binghamton University, joins Money on the Left to discuss the history of political organizing and activism around money in the United States, from the pre-Revolutionary period to the New Deal era. Characterized alternately by periods of widespread “silencing” and mass mobilization, the history of money politics that […]

  • The Modern Money Movement with Andrés Bernal

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    We are joined by Andrés Bernal, policy advisor to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and doctoral student at the New School for Public Engagement, Division of Policy Management and Environment. We speak with Bernal about his history with political organizing and the critical role he has come to play in the Modern Money movement, including the struggle for […]

  • Wall Street bubbles—always the same

    Inflation & the Politics of Pricing with Nathan Tankus

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we talk with Nathan Tankus, Research Director of the Modern Money Network, and Research Fellow at the Clarke Business Law Institute at Cornell Law School. We ask Nathan to expand upon and deepen his engagement with the inflation question in all its historical, political, and rhetorical complexity.

  • The Quest for Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa

    Money on the Left: Confronting Monetary Imperialism in Francophone Africa

    William Saas and Scott Ferguson and Ndongo Samba Sylla and Maxximilian Seijo

    Ndongo Samba Sylla on the history of political economy in pre- and post-colonial Africa, the theoretical bases and political stakes of the anti-CFA Franc movement, and how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) ought to inform current and future efforts to restore political and economic sovereignty to West African nations.

  • Colored Property & State Debt with David Freund

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we talk with David Freund, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. David is the author of Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America, an award-winning book that tracks how the language of racial exclusion was re-coded in terms of markets, property, and citizenship in the post-World War II era.

  • Imagining the Green New Deal with Robert Hockett

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we speak with Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. At Cornell, about his role in crafting the Green New Deal Resolution, his conception of finance as a franchise, and his experience as an advisor to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as well to Senators Sanders and Warren.

  • The Quest for Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa

    Confronting Monetary Imperialism in Francophone Africa with Ndongo Samba Sylla

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    On this episode, Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo talk with Sylla about the history of political economy in pre-and post-colonial Africa; the theoretical bases and political stakes of the anti-CFA Franc movement; and how Modern Monetary Theory ought to inform current and future efforts to restore political and economic sovereignty to West African nations.

  • Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender with Julie Mell

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    On this episode, Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo speak with Mell about these and other connections that may be drawn between her own and neochartalism’s critical projects.

  • Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we’re joined by Steven Attewell, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.

  • Money & Power with Jamee Moudud

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we’re joined by Jamee Moudud, a professor of economics at Sarah Lawrence College, Jamee draws on the tradition of critical legal studies to extend the constitutional theory of money to new historical and international contexts.

  • Poor People’s Campaign – June 23, 2018

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this special episode, we offer a montage of interviews, songs, and speeches recorded during the Poor People’s Campaign’s June 23 rally on the National Mall and march on the US Capitol. To learn more about the 21st Century.

  • Gender, Labor, & Law with Emma Caterine

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we speak with Emma Caterine (@emmacaterineDSA), a law graduate and writer with more than a decade of experience working within economic justice, feminist, LGBTQ, and racial justice movements. We talk Democratic Socialists of America, MMT, the advantages of a federal jobs guarantee over a universal basic income, the place for sex work in a jobs guarantee program.

  • The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, we speak with Fadhel Kaboub (@fadhelkaboub), associate professor of economics at Denison University and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Fadhel outlines a new critical approach to postcolonial political economy, arguing that re-gaining financial sovereignty is a crucial next step for postcolonial nations hoping to achieve social, economic, and environmental justice.

  • Confronting Cinema’s Fascist Unconscious with Maxximilian Seijo

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In this episode, Money on the Left cohost Maxximilian Seijo (@maxseijo) expands upon the argument made in his video essay, “Inglorious Basterds: Nazi Desire Fully Employed,” which takes a neochartalist lens to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds (2008).

  • Job Guarantee as Historical Struggle with David Stein

    Scott Ferguson and Maxximilian Seijo and William Saas

    In our inaugural episode, we consider the recent resurgence of full employment politics in the United States from both a political and historical perspective with historian David Stein (@davidpstein).

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