Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

ISBN-13: 9780062936318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Brett Scott

Recenzje

"An important reflection on the new world of finance. Brett Scott writes with gusto about blockchain, crypto, and the power nexus between Big Tech and the banks in a cashless society." - Lionel Barber, journalist and former editor of the Financial Times

"A fascinating and readable guide to the future, and how we can reclaim that future from the clutches of Big Finance and Big Tech." - Grace Blakeley, author of The Corona Crash and Stolen

"A brilliant, fascinating, and utterly accessible book-a pioneering and political guide to the fast-evolving web of global finance. Combining anthropological insight with the financial acumen of an industry insider, Scott lays out the long view on how tech and finance are rapidly merging to supercharge corporate capitalism. If you want to understand what money is-and what it is in danger of becoming-start right here." - Kate Raworth, cofounder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab and author of Doughnut Economics

"In a book that is simultaneously irreverent, hard-hitting, and entertaining, Brett Scott blows apart conventional myths about cash, digital money, and crypto, and brilliantly shows us what's at stake in the coming battles for the soul of money." - Stephanie Kelton, author of the New York Times bestseller The Deficit Myth

"Told with authority and clarity." - Kirkus Reviews

O autorze

Brett Scott is an economic anthropologist, financial activist, and former broker. In 2013 he published The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money, and since then has spoken at hundreds of events across the globe and has appeared across international media, including BBC World News and Sky News. He has written extensively on financial reform, digital finance, alternative currency, blockchain technology, and the cashless society for publications like the Guardian, New Scientist, Huffington Post, Wired, and CNN.com, and also publishes the Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter. He has worked on financial reform campaigns and alternative currency systems with a wide range of groups and is a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab (UK). He lives in Berlin.