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The Money Plot: A History from Shells to Bullion to Bitcoin
Other Press
ISBN13:
9781635423150
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Half fable, half manifesto, this brilliant new take on the ancient concept of cash lays bare its unparalleled capacity to empower and enthrall us. Frederick Kaufman tackles the complex history of money, beginning with the earliest myths and wrapping up with Wall Streets byzantine present-day doings. Along the way, he exposes a set of allegorical plots, stock characters, and stereotypical metaphors that have long been linked with money and commercial culture, from Melanesian trading rituals to the dogma of Medieval churchmen faced with global commerce, the rationales of Mercantilism and colonial expansion, and the U.S. dollars 1971 unpinning from gold. The Money Plot offers a tool to see through the haze of modern banking and finance, demonstrating that the standard reasons given for economic inequalitythe Neoliberal gospel of market forcesare, like dollars, euros, and yuan, contingent upon structures people have designed. It shines a light on the one percents efforts to contain a money culture that benefits them within boundaries they themselves are increasingly setting. And Kaufman warns that if we cannot recognize what is going on, we run the risk of becoming pawns and shells ourselves, of becoming characters in someone elses plot, of becoming other peoples money.
- | Author: Frederick Kaufman
- | Publisher: Other Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Business & Economics
- | ISBN-10: 1635423155
- | ISBN-13: 9781635423150
- Author:
- Frederick Kaufman
- Publisher:
- Other Press
- Publication Date:
- Nov 01, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 304 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Business & Economics
- ISBN-10:
- 1635423155
- ISBN-13:
- 9781635423150