Money as Socially Real Fantasy
Feb/09/2013 15:14
Here are the radio stories (from various podcasts) that I’ve mentioned in our discussions. I highly recommend them all, especially as we continue to talk through economic issues for the next few weeks. I will list them here in the order that I think makes the most sense, but it’s not chronological.
Two quick -- and utterly classic -- readings on the topic. I highly recommend skimming them before you listen to the stories. To think -- this all begins with an anthropologist! The links below go to pdfs available to you via Collab.
WIlliam Henry Furniss. 1910. The Island of Stone Money. Philadelphia: Lippincott. Introduction and chapter 7.
Milton Friedman. 1991. “The Island of Stone Money.” In his, Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History. New York: Harcourt Brace. Pages 3-8.
From “This American Life” -- Click the links to download or stream the episodes.
The Invention of Money
The Giant Pool of Money.
Return to The Giant Pool of Money.
The Watchmen.
Additional reading, that I have found exceedingly helpful:
Julian Dibbell. 2006. Play Money: Or, How I Quit my Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot. New York: Basic Books. (This is the book Dannah mentioned in our last discussion)
Lawrence Weschler. 1999. Boggs: A Comedy of Values. Chicago: U Chicago Press.
Michael Lewis. 2010. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. New York: W.W. Norton.
Barbara Ehrenreich. 2009. “Introduction,” “Motivating Business and the Business of Motivation,” and “God Wants you to be Rich.” From her Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America.
Sam Walker. 2007. Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball. New York: Penguin.
Here is my “Fantasy” course in which I also teach these materials.
Some documentary films to check out:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Alex Gibney, dir. 2005
Inside Job. Charles Ferguson, dir. 2010.
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Alex Gibney, dir. 2010.
The Queen of Versailles. Lauren Greenfield, dir. 2011. (This is the film that Dannah mentioned in our last discussion.)
Two quick -- and utterly classic -- readings on the topic. I highly recommend skimming them before you listen to the stories. To think -- this all begins with an anthropologist! The links below go to pdfs available to you via Collab.
WIlliam Henry Furniss. 1910. The Island of Stone Money. Philadelphia: Lippincott. Introduction and chapter 7.
Milton Friedman. 1991. “The Island of Stone Money.” In his, Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History. New York: Harcourt Brace. Pages 3-8.
From “This American Life” -- Click the links to download or stream the episodes.
The Invention of Money
The Giant Pool of Money.
Return to The Giant Pool of Money.
The Watchmen.
Additional reading, that I have found exceedingly helpful:
Julian Dibbell. 2006. Play Money: Or, How I Quit my Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot. New York: Basic Books. (This is the book Dannah mentioned in our last discussion)
Lawrence Weschler. 1999. Boggs: A Comedy of Values. Chicago: U Chicago Press.
Michael Lewis. 2010. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. New York: W.W. Norton.
Barbara Ehrenreich. 2009. “Introduction,” “Motivating Business and the Business of Motivation,” and “God Wants you to be Rich.” From her Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America.
Sam Walker. 2007. Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball. New York: Penguin.
Here is my “Fantasy” course in which I also teach these materials.
Some documentary films to check out:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Alex Gibney, dir. 2005
Inside Job. Charles Ferguson, dir. 2010.
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Alex Gibney, dir. 2010.
The Queen of Versailles. Lauren Greenfield, dir. 2011. (This is the film that Dannah mentioned in our last discussion.)