Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe who is joined by two thinkers whose work on money, neoliberal capitalism, the state and its discontents, cryptocurrency, conspiracy theories, and so much more have overlapping and fascinating insights for how we see the political world today.
Quinn Slobodian's most recent book is Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy published by Metropolitan Books in the US, Penguin in the UK and elsewhere. He is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, contributing writer to New Statesman, co-editor of Contemporary European History and co-director of the History and Political Economy Project.
Brett Scott is a journalist, campaigner, monetary anthropologist and former financial broker. He’s the author of Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets (Penguin: 2022), and The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance (Pluto Press: 2013). He writes the Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter at brettscott.substack.com.

Me: sarahljaffe.comWork Won't Love You Back

Brett Scott: Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets 
Going cashlessThe War on Cash (review of Cloudmoney)
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance

Quinn Slobodian: Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy 
Book excerpt: Inside Silicon Valley’s dream of capitalism untethered from democracyMonster of the Mainstream (on Javier Milei)

Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol (With William Callison) 

The Wonderful Death of a StateEverything You Thought About Free Trade Is WrongGlobalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Things We Mentioned: 

Argentina's General Strike

Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social ConservatismThe Anarchists series

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