Robert C. Hockett Discusses Money and How It Works pt.1

Robert C. Hockett, Professor of law at Cornell law school, joins Class Unity to discuss money: how it works and how it relates to banking, capital, and investment. He makes the case for a new set of reforms designed to socialize investment. His research lies in the fields of organizational financial, and monetary law, and economics.

In this episode we discuss his papers:

Modern, Pre-Modern, Or Post-Modern Money? A Brief Guide For The Perplexed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rhockett/2020/10/26/modern-pre-modern-or-post-modern-money-a-brief-guide-for-the-perplexed/

The ‘Socialization of Investment’ https://einaudi.cornell.edu/research/publications/socialization-investment

Professor Hockett’s recent books include “Making capital democratic” and “Spread the Fed: Distributed Central Banking for Productive-Republican Finance”

Follow Robert Hockett on Twitter/X @rch371

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