Brett Scott published a book called The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money, with Pluto Press. He has written for publications like the Guardian, The Ecologist, The New Inte
Covid-19 will be mobilised by the financial industry to push its War on Cash even further, leaving us ever more ensnared within its private digital money empire.
Banks, governments and fintech evangelists all hail a 'cashless future' as both inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia; it means that banks mediate our lives to an ever-greater extent.
We may be in the early phase of a slow-moving revolution, which will only be perceptible in hindsight. As projects within these five pillars emerge, the infrastructure, norms and cultural acceptance for a more connected, creative, open financial system may begin to emerge and coalesce into reality
A prevalent characteristic of financial discourse in the UK and beyond is the polarisation of a creative entrepreneurial culture with a rebellious left-wing. Brett Scott deconstructs this opposition, finding in the emergent space a hybrid radical – well versed in the pragmatics of microeconomics w
