The Power of Money

Shows how beliefs about money, as well as attitudes and values towards it, have varied between societies and specifically how they have changed over the modern era since 1900

Discusses the creation of a global money space, which the author dates to the last quarter of the 20th century, and explores its features

Describes features of the new money society that inhabits the global money space and shows how each society, and indeed successive generations of the same society, has made its own unique arrangements to govern money

Autorentext
Robert Pringle is an author, editor, commentator and entrepreneur specializing in money, banking and capital markets. A former Editor of The Banker, London, he was founding director of the Group of 30 institute on monetary affairs (now based in Washington, DC) from 1979 to 1986. In 1990 he founded Central Banking Publications, a financial publisher specialising in public policy and financial markets including the Central Banking journal, which he edited for 20 years. He remains chairman of the company. Robert has monitored and commented on changes in financial markets and the monetary policies of central banks around the world for more than 40 years. In addition to numerous articles for a wide variety of journals, he has published several books and edited more than 50 volumes of collected papers, surveys and training manuals for central bankers and market regulators. He has obtained a Master's degree in economics, sociology and history from King's College, Cambridge University, UK, and conducted post-graduate study in economics and sociology at the London School of Economics, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. European money and culture before 1914.- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar.- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s.- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism.- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas.- 7. How Europe's culture kept money under control (1940s and 1950s).- 8. New money from the New World.- 9. American culture and the dollar after World War II.- 10. The century's hinge (mid 1960s to late 1970s).- 11. 1980-2000: Creation of a global money space.- 12. The global money culture - an outline.- 13. Money Delusion and the crash, 2000-2010.- 14. Money as a tool of the state.- 15. The euro: the biggest money project.- 16. Crony and criminal capitalism since 2010.- 17. Global money: Insiders and Outsiders.- 18. The jealous state and the future of money.- 19. The new sociology of money.- 20. Money and the decline of classical liberalism.- 21. What can we learn from Japanese culture.- 22. Contemporary art: towards new ways of'seeing' money.- 23. The money we deserve.