Money as a Democratic Medium | History and Theory

If money is a complex collective enterprise, protean in design possibilities both in practice and conception, then it has a history of change, carries profound moral significance, and lays a rightful claim to the concern of citizens and political theorists, lawyers and economists alike. How should an approach to money as a public medium re-orient fields that have ignored it? And how might the ideal of democracy matter in revised approaches? On Dec. 14-15, Harvard held a two-day conference, “Money as a Democratic Medium,” which challenged its participants to re-examine the history of money in America, and to redefine its future. Roundtable Discussion