The Citizens' Ledger, the Treasury Dollar, & the 'Digital Hilferding' Project

Image: Margarete & Rudolf Hilferding, whose pathbreaking work showed how the concentration of capital in big banks paved the way to public management of the economy. These works realize that aim..
  1. The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, DemocratizingOur Finance
  2. The Capital Commons: The Balance Sheet of the Productive Republic
  3. The Democratic Digital Dollar: A Peer-to-Peer Savings and Payments Platform
  4. Money’s Past is Fintech’s Future: Wildcat Crypto, theDigital Dollar, and Citizen Central Banking
  5. Digital Greenbacks: A Sequenced TreasuryDirect and FedWalletPlan for the Democratic Digital Dollar
  6. Treasury Growth Dividends
  7. The Treasury Dollar Plan
  8. Our Nation’s Next Money: From Ledgers to Tokens and Back
  9. The New York Inclusive Value Ledger
  10. Open the Marriage to Save It: A Peer-to-Peer Savings andPayments Platform and Complementary Digital Euro Plan
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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.

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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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