#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.   Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast     For an intro to MMT: Listen to our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417   All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643   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   We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos   Transcript for opening monologue: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67518447   Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67518491