#133 Hannah Appel: Debt Cancellation - The Activist's Toolkit

Patricia and Christian talk to economic anthropologist and co-founder of the Debt Collective, Professor Hannah Appel about the growing movement for debt abolition and where MMT fits in with it.

 

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For more on The Debt Collective: https://debtcollective.org/what-we-do/debt-abolition/#faqs

 

The Debt Collective on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StrikeDebt

 

NYT Student Debt Editorial, Annotated by the Debt Collective: https://medium.com/@debtcollective/nyt-student-debt-editorial-annotated-by-the-debt-collective-ccafa6e3a3dc

 

The Debt Collective - “Cancel Student Debt: The Best Answers To The Toughest Questions”: https://medium.com/@debtcollective/cancel-student-debt-the-best-answers-to-the-toughest-questions-3e4309877db6

 

 

Hannah Appel - “Debtors Of The World Unite”: https://bostonreview.net/articles/debtors-world-unite/

 

Attend online events from the Levy Economics Institute summer seminar, June 11–18, 2022 (NB session times are in eastern time): https://www.levyinstitute.org/conferences/summer_sem_public_schedule_6_2.pdf

 

For more on the Edward Lipiński Foundation’s MMT Summer School in Poznań, Poland (10th - 14th August 2022): https://fundacjalipinskiego.pl/wydarzenia/mmt-summer-school-2022/

 

Sign up for alerts from The Gower Initiative For Modern Money Studies about their forthcoming MMT book: https://gimms.org.uk/

 

 

 

More on monetary operations:

Episode 20 - Warren Mosler: The MMT Money Story (part 1): https://www.patreon.com/posts/28004824

 

Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318

 

Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887

 

Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683

“An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer – 2nd edition” by Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: https://gimms.org.uk/2021/02/21/an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer/

Our episodes about “An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer”:

Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183

Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929 

 

More on inflation:

Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678

Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835

Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379

Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558

 

A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757

 

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Transcript for opening monologue: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67518447

 

Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67518491