Money 5,000 Years Of Debt And Power

Author: Michel Aglietta; Pepita Ould Ahmed (Contribution by); Jean-François Ponsot (Contribution by); David Broder (Translator)

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  • : Michel Aglietta; Pepita Ould Ahmed (Contribution by); Jean-François Ponsot (Contribution by); David Broder (Translator)
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As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The whole financial system was collapsing, without anything to stop it. When a senator asked Bernanke what would happen if the central bank did not carry out its rescue package, he replied,"lf we don' t do this, we may not have an economy on Monday."
What saved finance, and the Western economy, was money. Yet it is a highly ambivalent phenomenon. It is deeply embedded in our societies, acting as a powerful link between the individual and the collective. But by no means is it neutral. Through its grip on finance and the debts system, money confers sovereign power on the economy. If confidence in money is not maintained, crises will follow.