The Myth of Credit Money

The new age of credit money we are in seems to have started precisely backwards. It began with the creation of global institutions like the i m f, designed to protect not debtors, but creditors. On the kind of historical scale we're talking about here, a decade or two is nothing. We have very little idea what to expect. This book is a history of death then, but it also uses that history as a way to ask fundamental questions about what human beings in society are or could be like.