The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate by Kaufman, Frederick
The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate by Kaufman, Frederick

The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate

Half fable, half manifesto, this brilliant new take on the ancient concept of cash lays bare its...
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Author: Frederick Kaufman
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The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate by Kaufman, Frederick

The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate

$84.51
The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate by Kaufman, Frederick

The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate

$84.51
Author: Frederick Kaufman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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 Street's 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. dollar's 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 inequality--the Neoliberal gospel of market forces--are, like dollars, euros, and yuan, contingent upon structures people have designed. It shines a light on the one percent's 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 else's plot, of becoming other people's money.

Author: Frederick Kaufman
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 11/24/2020
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781590517185


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/24/2020
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2020
Choice 07/01/2021

About the Author
Frederick Kaufman, an English professor by training and profession, has for the past decade focused his attention on the fiction that is money. His unorthodox insights into the ways of Wall Street have resulted in numerous magazine articles for publications ranging from Scientific American to Wired to Foreign Policy to Harper's, as well as television appearances on NBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business Network, and Democracy Now!, and invitations to lecture in both the United States and Europe, including an address to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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