Brett Scott

Cloudmoney (eBook, ePUB)

Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Who really benefits from a cashless society?

Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests: the great battle of our time is for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives.

Cloudmoney tells a revelatory story about the fusion of big finance and tech, which requires physical cash to be replaced by digital money or 'cloudmoney'. Diving beneath the surface of the global financial system, Brett Scott uncovers a long-established lobbying infrastructure waging a covert war on cash under the banner of progress but at the cost of our privacy, politics and individual freedom.

'A wonderfully revolutionary text' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

'Scott has struck an important vein that is vital in a digital age' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Brilliant, fascinating and utterly accessible' KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut Economics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473569263
• Artikelnr.: 59291532

Autorenporträt

Brett Scott is a campaigner, monetary anthropologist and former broker. He is the author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money, and has appeared in a wide range of TV shows, radio broadcasts and documentaries, 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 Magazine and CNN.com, and also publishes the Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter.

His Twitter is @suitpossum

Rezensionen

"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