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About William Saas

William Saas (@billysaas) is assistant professor of rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. He is also a Research Scholar for the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, co-director of The Modern Money Network Humanities Division, and host of the Money on the Left podcast. His current academic work mobilizes and develops neochartalism as a theoretical framework for radical cultural, political, and rhetorical critique. He has authored or coauthored articles in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Dollars & Sense, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, symplokê, and Western Journal of Communication.
  • 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.

  • 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.

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