Review: Making Money Real by BJ Chippindale
A mind-expanding thesis on the vital overlap of human nature and natural law, Making Money Real: The Radical Anti-Capitalism of Thermodynamics by BJ Chippindale deconstructs the concepts of currency, debt, ownership, and capital, presenting a compelling manifesto for a new generation.
In this radical and essential mixture of economics and natural science, Chippindale asks if the energetic exchange of atoms in the cosmos or food in our digestive system is all that different from the churn of currency through a society or community. Basing his cogent argument on the alignment of thermodynamic laws with the creation and perpetuation of money […]
In a chance meeting, crossing between new town and old in the city of Portland, Oregon, economic writer Rand McGreal and French economist Jean Baptiste Say find themselves in commonality. Sitting to discuss their ideas, Say elaborates the ideas that made him notable, all the while answering the challenges and queries of the curious McGreal. Recording the encounter, McGreal has published his discussions in his new book: Killing an Idea: Exhuming Say’ Law, the second part of Rand McGreal’s Lost Economics series.
