比特币的新自由主义乌托邦与现代货币理论

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.5325/utopianstudies.33.1.0127
John M. Robison
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比特币和现代货币理论的倡导者将他们的想法作为新自由主义主导的激进乌托邦替代品,但这些说法忽视了新自由主义货币理论本身的乌托邦张力。这种紧张表现在该理论相信市场有能力完善人类社会。比特币和现代货币理论表达了同样的信念。在对莫尔和蒲鲁东的更古老、更激进的货币乌托邦进行简要调查之后,本文追溯了比特币和MMT在更传统的金属主义和chartalism货币理论中的起源,然后分析了这两个运动的乌托邦话语,揭示了比特币将国家干预视为市场正常运作的唯一障碍,而MMT将功能失调归咎于劳动力动员不足,提出国家干预作为补救措施。在这两种情况下,他们的政策都只是寻求实现市场的乌托邦潜力,与新自由主义正统观点保持一致。结论提供了一些关于这两种理论的出现可能告诉我们关于新自由主义未来的推测。
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The Neoliberal Utopianism of Bitcoin and Modern Monetary Theory
abstract:Advocates of Bitcoin and Modern Monetary Theory present their ideas as radical utopian alternatives to the neoliberal dominant, but these claims neglect the utopian strain in neoliberal monetary theory itself. This strain manifests in that theory's faith in the capacity of markets to perfect human society. Bitcoin and Modern Monetary Theory express this same faith. After a brief survey of the older, more radical money utopias of More and Proudhon, this article traces the origins of Bitcoin and MMT in the more conventional monetary theories of metallism and chartalism and then analyzes the utopian discourse of both movements, revealing that Bitcoin sees state intervention as the only obstacle to properly functioning markets, while MMT blames disfunction on an inadequate mobilization of labor, proposing state intervention as the remedy. In both cases, their policies only seek to enable the utopian potential of the market, falling in line with neoliberal orthodoxy. The conclusion offers some speculation about what the emergence of these two theories might tell us about the future of neoliberalism.
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