These books and papers elaborate an account of money as both an emanation and a facilitator of collective agency, built upon promise and associated enforceable obligation (hence 'credit-money'), that enables individual efficacy in communion with others. This account renders money endogeneity, inflation, and deflation both intelligible and readily manageable.
1. Money from Nothing (w/ Aaron James)
4. Modern,Pre-Modern, or Post-Modern Money? A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
5. Money’s Past is Fintech’s Future: Wildcat Crypto, the Digital Dollar, and Citizen Central Banking
6. The Nation’s Next Money: From Ledgers to Tokens and Back
7. What ‘Backs’ the Currency? Easy: Production
10. Modern Money
11. All Money is Fiat Money, Most Money is Credit-Money
Columns, OpEds, Occasional Journalism
I'm no Marx or Keynes, but like them I do try to accompany most of my scholarly, policy advocacy, and legislative work with more accessible journalistic companion pieces. Here are some of my regular columns for Forbes, The Hill, FT, and Huffington Post, along with other occasional journalism.
The Green New Deal
The Green New Deal initiative begun in 2018 marked the beginning of a return to ambitious public-private coordination in the cause of rebuilding the American economy along more just, productive, and sustainable lines. Hockett worked with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and her team from the start on the GND Resolution introduced to Congress in early 2019, then on the initiative's finance plan as well as much follow-up legislation found in the 'Legislation' Module of this site.
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