Overview
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Frederick Kaufman tackles the complex history of money, beginning with the earliest myths and wrapping up with Wall Streetās 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. dollarās 1971 unpinning from gold.
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The Money Plot offers a tool to see through the haze of modern banking and finance, demonstrating that the standard reasons given for economic inequalityāthe Neoliberal gospel of market forcesāare, like dollars, euros, and yuan, contingent upon structures people have designed. It shines a light on the one percentās 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 elseās plot, of becoming other peopleās money.
This book title, The Money Plot (A History from Shells to Bullion to Bitcoin), ISBN: 9781635423150, by Frederick Kaufman, published by Other Press (November 1, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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