#199 The Money Myths Fuelling Right-Wing Populism with Jakob Feinig

Christian talks to Professor Jakob Feinig about how right-wing politics is bolstered by the myth that humans are part of a mechanism they can neither understand nor change - The Market - and the efforts to further its mystification, known as “monetary silencing”.

 

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Relevant to this episode:

• “MAGA, the Job Guarantee, and Post-Neoliberal Public Knowledge” by Jakob Feinig: https://www.postneoliberalism.org/articles/maga-the-job-guarantee-and-post-neoliberal-public-knowledge/#primary
• “Moral Economies of Money” by Jakob Feinig: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33698
• Money On The Left Collective: https://moneyontheleft.org/
• Our episode 69 with Scott Ferguson & Maxx Seijo from Money On The Left -  “The Choreographers of Credit” - on the “Uni” credit-issuance project: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42552289
• “How to Fight Back Against the False Idea that the Government is at the Mercy of Financial Markets” by Sheridan Kates: https://thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2025/3/10/scotonomics-monetary-autonomy
• For more on the endogenous money view (the non-fringe, very mainstream view that bank loans create deposits, not the other way around), listen to episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: .css-j9qmi7{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:2.8rem;width:100%;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:start;justify-content:start;padding-left:5rem;}@media only screen and (max-width: 599px){.css-j9qmi7{padding-left:0;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;}}.css-j9qmi7 svg{fill:#27292D;}.css-j9qmi7 .eagfbvw0{-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;color:#27292D;}