Rohan Grey

Books

• Digitizing the Dollar: The Battle for the Soul of Public Money in the Age of Cryptocurrency (Melville House, forthcoming 2021).

Articles

• Smart Contracts in Monetary Policy, J.L. Info. & Sci. forthcoming (2021). 
• International Law, Global Finance, and the Internet Society, in Tipping Points in International Law: Critique and Commitment (John Haskell & Jean d’Aspremont eds., forthcoming 2021). 
• Equality, Not Equal Pay: Distributional Justice Beyond Money, in Debating Equal Pay For All: Economy, Practicability, and Ethics (Anders Örtenblad ed., 2021).
• Administering Money: Coinage, Debt Crises, and the Future of Fiscal Policy, 109 Ky. L. J. ___ (2020).
• Smart Contracts in Monetary Policy, J. of L. Info. & Sci. __ (2020).   
• Monetary Resilience, 41(3) W. New. Eng. L. Rev. 505 (2019).
• Money Isn’t Scarce: It’s Infinite, in 'Eleven Things They Don’t Tell You About Law and Economics: An Informal Introduction to Political Economy and the Law,' 37 L. & Ineq. 97 (2019).

Book Chapters

• "International Law, Global Finance, and the Internet Society," Tipping Points in International Law: Critique and Commitment (J. Haskell & J. d’Aspremont, Eds.) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020).
• "Inflation Management in the Green New Deal Era," Green New Deal: Interdisciplinary Heterodox Perspectives (M. Murray & M. Forstater, Eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2020).  
• "Equality, Not Equal Pay: Distributional Justice Beyond Money," Debating Equal Pay For All: Economy, Practicability, and Ethics (A. Örtenblad, Ed.) (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2020).
• "Banking in a Digital Fiat Currency Regime," Regulating Blockchain: Techno-Social and Legal Challenges (Philipp Hacker, et al., Eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2019).
• "What is Money?," Rethinking Finance (Rethinking Economics Norway, 2019).
• "Who Owns the Intellectual Fruits of Job Guarantee Labor?" The Job Guarantee and Modern Money: Realizing Keynes's Labor Standard (M. Murray & M. Forstater, Eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Reports & White Papers

• "Regulatory Risks and Challenges for Central Bank Digital Currency," International Telecommunications Union - Focus Group on Digital Currency (2019).
• "The Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Digital Fiat Currency" (with Jonathan Dharmapalan), eCurrency Mint (2017).
• "Leveraging the Remake: The Role of the Arts in a Shifting Economy" (with Nora Halpern, et al.), Americans for the Arts (2012).
• "Artist as Entrepreneur: A Guide to Federal Economic Development Grants for Arts Organizations," Americans for the Arts (2011).

Editorials & Blogs

• "We Can Afford To Beat This Crisis," The Nation (March 20, 2020)
• "RIP Paul Volcker: The Fed Chair Who Thought We Lived Too Well," The Nation (December 11, 2019)
• "Facebook Wants Its Own Currency. That Should Scare Us All," The Nation (July 22, 2019)
• "Money and Property" (with Lua Yuille), Law and Political Economy Blog (May 16, 2019)
• "An MMT Response on What Causes Inflation" (with Nathan Tankus & Scott Fullwiler), Financial Times (March 1, 2019)
• "Do We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee? A Debate" (with Raúl Carrillo), In These Times (June 19, 2018)
• "Do Negative Interest Rates Live Up To The Hype?," Oxford Business Law Blog (March 13, 2017)
• "A Memo from MMT’s Legal Department," New Economic Perspectives (July 15, 2017)
• "Between the (Balance) Sheets: Why Lawyers Need to Get Intimate With Accounting" (with the Modern Money Network, Columbia Law Chapter), Morningside Muckraker (May 6, 2015)
• "Free Culture? Free Finance" (with the Modern Money Network, Columbia Law Chapter), Morningside Muckraker (October 28, 2014)
• "Cheap Victories: Modern Money and the Roots of Campaign Finance Reform" (with Raúl Carrillo, Genia Gokhmark, Lily Vo, & Maria Schweinberger), Morningside Muckraker (September 30, 2014)

Podcast Interviews

• "Why the War on Cash is a War on Freedom," Odd Lots (April 17, 2020)
• "Monetary Policy," Ipse Dixit (April 2, 2020)
• "#MintTheCoin," Left Anchor (March 28, 2020)
• "Modern Monetary Theory and Intellectual Property," Ipse Dixit (October 24, 2019)
• "A Green New Tomorrow: A Survival Guide," Macro ‘n’ Cheese (September 28, 2019)
• "The Legal Nature of Money and the History of the Federal Reserve," Macro ‘n’ Cheese (September 21, 2019)
• "Digital Currency, Privacy, and Modern Monetary Theory," MacroMusings (February 11, 2019)
• "Digital Money Beyond Blockchain," Money on the Left (November 14, 2018)
• "Shaking the Money Tree" (with Raúl Carrillo), Current Affairs Podcast (October 11, 2018)
• "A Job Guarantee vs. A Universal Basic Income," MMT Podcast (July 8, 2018)

Congressional Testimony

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES
Task Force on Financial Technology Hearing
Digitizing the Dollar: Investigating the Technological Infrastructure, Privacy, and Financial Inclusion Implications of Central Bank Digital Currencies (2021).

Recent Media

• Macro ‘n’ Cheese, The Public Banking Act With Rohan Grey (11/7)
• Hidden Forces, Understanding the STABLE Act and the Push to Regulate Crypto (12/8)
• The Block Live, The Stable Act With Jeremy Allaire & Rohan Grey (12/8)
• Público, Interview With Rohan Grey (12/9)
• Unchained, Why Rohan Grey Believes Stablecoin Issuers Need to Be Banks (12/11)
• Bankless, Ethereum vs The STABLE Act with Rohan Grey (12/22)
• Real Vision Finance, The Controversial STABLE Act & Its Implications for Crypto (12/23)
• Vox, Emily Stewart, Rashida Tlaib and AOC Have a Proposal for a Fairer, Greener Financial System – Public Banking (10/30)
• Newsweek, Lucy Harley-McKeown, Biden Treasury Pick Janet Yellen’s Past Warnings About Debt Trigger Alarm Among Left Wing Democrats (11/25)
• Coindesk, Nikhilesh De, US Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Require Stablecoin Issuers to Obtain Bank Charters (12/2)
• Coindesk, Daniel Kuhn, Blockhain Bites: Bitcoin’s Edge as a Hedge and Crypto’s Reaction to the STABLE Act (12/3)
• Decrypt, Jeff Benson, Crypto’s New Villain: Meet the Legal Scholar Behind the STABLE Act (12/4)
• Asia Times, Paul Muir, US Stablecoin Bill Sparks Innovation Fears (12/4)
• Press & Guide, Tlaib, Garcia & Lynch Introduce Legislation Protecting Consumers From Cryptocurrency-Related Financial Threats (12/5)
• Investopedia, Rakesh Sharma, New Stablecoin Bill Raises Concerns Among the Crypto Community (12/7)
• Futures, U.S. House Dems Propose Crypto Regulation Through ‘STABLE Act’ (12/9)
• Real Progressives (The Deficit Myth, Jan 5)
• RadioLab (MintTheCoin, Jan 15)
• Decrypt (OCC Crypto Regulation, Jan 11)
• Real Vision (Mike Green Interview, Jan 17)
• Intercept (Yellen, Jan 18)
• Coindesk (Biden and Crypto, Jan 19)
• Intercept (RobinHood, Jan 31)
• Decrypt (Tether, Feb 5)
• WIRED (CBDC and Privacy, March 17)
• MarketWatch (Biden and Crypto, March 22)
• Decrypt (Tether Audit Transparency, April 1)
• Decrypt (NFTs, April 27)
• Reuters (Nevada Innovation Zones, April 28)
• Financial Times (Stablecoin Regulation, May 12)
• Financial Times (Tether’s Reserves Attestation, May 13)
• Real Progressives (Digital Future, June 5)
• BBC World News (El Salvador & Bitcoin, June 6)
• Washington Post (El Salvador & Bitcoin, June 7)
• Coindesk (El Salvador & Bitcoin, June 7)
• Univision (El Salvador & Bitcoin, June 8)
• Bloomberg (CBDC and Digital Dollar, June 15)
• MarketWatch (Fintech CBDC Hearing, June 15)
• TheBlock (Fintech CBDC Hearing, June 15)
• CoinDesk (CBDC and Privacy, June 18)
• CoinMarketCap (El Salvador & Bitcoin, June 23)
• Monero Talk (Digital Currency, June 24)
• DW (El Salvador & Bitcoin, June 25)
• CoinDesk (Quarles & Stablecoins, June 29)
• CoinDesk (Stablecoins, July 2)
• Boston Globe (Circle, July 8)
• Financial Times (Circle, July 9)
• Al Jazeera (Digital Dollar, July 12)
• New Money Review (Stablecoins, July 14)
• Mercurio (El Salvador, July 19)
• Crypto Critic’s Corner (Stablecoins, July 21)
• Bloomberg (Circle & Stablecoins, Aug 11)
• Financial Times (Circle, Aug 24)
• Coindesk (Crypto Media Ethics, Aug 27)
• Blockworks (Avanti Bank, Aug 30)
• Wall Street Journal (Coinbase, Sept 8)
• MarketWatch (Stablecoin Regulation, Sept 16)
• Quartz (#MintTheCoin, Sept 28)
• MoneyOnTheLeft (#MintTheCoin, Sept 28)
• Coindesk (Crypto & Capitalism, Sept 30)
• Bloomberg (#MintTheCoin, Sept 30)
• Bloomberg TV (#MintTheCoin, Sept 30)
• NYMagazine (#MintTheCoin, Sept 30)