Making Money: The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781682658 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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A breakthrough in post-Marxist analysis “Making Money” by Ole Bjerg represents a breakthrough in post-Marxist analysis. Mr. Bjerg is an associate professor at Copenhagen Business School whose interdisciplinary work encompasses management, politics and philosophy. This somewhat difficult but highly rewarding book will enl. Jesper Aaen said Five Stars. Fascinating book! Ole Bjerg manages to explain the challenges our complex monetary system in an understandable way!. "Five Stars" according to Anthony W. Lowman. Fantastic book that wastes no time pointing out very important paths for Economic study.
. Ole Bjerg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. His previous works include Poker: The Parody of Capitalism (2011) as well as the three books in Danish
“With its explosive combination of philosophy, economics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Bjerg’s book provides an absolutely indispensable guide through the labyrinth of economics. It is a kind of theoretical equivalent of a science fiction filmin which we discover that aliens are already among us and are controlling us.”—Slavoj iek “Ole Bjerg provides us with a brilliant philosophical examination of this phenomenon that we call ‘money’ … This book should be onthe reading list of all economists, bankers, civil servants, politicians and, most importantly, of all citizen
What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself?In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. The analysis of money is put into an historical context by suggesting that the current financial turbulence and debt crisis are symptoms that we live in the age of post-credit capitalism. Using the thinking of Slavoj iek, while still engaging with mainstream economic literature, the book provides a genuinely philosophical theory of money. By bridging the fields of economics and contemporary philosophy, Bjerg's work engages in a productive form of intellectual arbitrage.. This theory is unfolded in r