Legal Studies 290P - Law, Money and Power

In this course we will study money as a social, legal, and political institution. We draw on sociology, economics, history, and legal studies to ask: What is money? Who creates it? Who controls it? And who bears the costs when it fails? Throughout the course we will cover foundational theories of money, competing frameworks, how money interacts with the law, race and colonialism, and finally new frontiers in digital and global finance.

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