Keystroke capitalism : how banks create money for the few
Sahr, Aaron2022
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Contemporary capitalism produces more and more money, debt, and inequality. These three trends have a common cause - the privilege of private banks to create money by means of accounting - by the stroke of a key. Why was this privilege not addressed politically for so long - and who benefited from it? At the heart of the answer lies the realization that the power to create money has been hidden by the way we commonly think and talk about capitalism. The book traces the omission of money creation from theories of capitalism and maps its consequences.
Main title:
Keystroke capitalism : how banks create money for the few / Aaron Sahr ; translated by Sharon Howe.
Author:
Sahr, Aaron, authorHowe, Sharon, translator
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2022.
Collation:
144 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781839761195 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
330.122
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
2541108
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