Leah Downey

TheoristModern

Author of 'Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters' (Princeton University Press, 2024), a book-length case that the power to create money must answer to legislatures rather than to independent, unaccountable central banks. Her research program on the democratic politics of monetary policy (Lecturer in Political Theory, Dept of Political Economy, KCL) keeps the question of who controls money creation in live academic and public debate, with reviews and press coverage through 2025-2026.