About this episode
Will Beaman joins Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson to discuss David Graeber's influence on debt and the left monetary imagination following Zohran Mamdani's election as Mayor of New York City.
Will Beaman joins Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson to discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York City. Will and Scott unpack their jointly authored essay, “The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination,” which is the latest in a series of pieces by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective to agitate for credit-centered experimentation through and beyond the Mamdani mayoral...
People in this episode
Hosts: Billy Saas, Scott Ferguson
Guest: Will Beaman
Topics covered
- debt
- David Graeber
- New York City
- politics
- monetary imagination
- credit-centered experimentation
Keywords
- debt
- David Graeber
- Zohran Mamdani
- New York City
- monetary imagination
- credit experimentation
- politics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Money on the Left Editorial Collective
Books & works: The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
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