Making a Mint: The Political Theology of the Trillion-Dollar Coin

• In Event: Probing Political Power Through Critical Theories of Technology, Cybernetics, and Sovereignty

Brief Overview

This paper examines the “Mint the Coin” movement, which offered a potential means to eliminate the national debt, in relation to modern monetary theory (MMT), and Schmittian arguments about sovereignty.

Author

• Robert E. Kirsch, Arizona State University