Brett Scott is a campaigner, monetary anthropologist and former
broker. He is the author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance-
Hacking the Future of Money, and has appeared in a wide range of TV
shows, radio broadcasts and documentaries, including BBC World News
and Sky News.
He has written extensively on financial reform, digital finance,
alternative currency, blockchain technology and the cashless
society for publications like the Guardian, New Scientist,
Huffington Post, Wired Magazine and CNN.com, and also publishes the
Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter.
His Twitter is @suitpossum
If people could see clearly how their money is created, they would
rebel - especially now that it is digitised. Brett Scott's highly
readable and topical Cloudmoney is, in this sense, a wonderfully
revolutionary text
*Yanis Varoufakis*
Cloudmoney is a brilliant, fascinating and utterly accessible book
- a pioneering and political guide to the fast-evolving web of
global finance... If you want to understand what money is - and
what it is in danger of becoming - start right here
*Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics*
A fascinating and readable guide to the future, and how we can
reclaim that future from the clutches of Big Finance and Big
Tech
*Grace Blakeley*
The rush to a cashless society isn't about convenience. It is about
power. Brett Scott cuts through the hype with this brilliant
critique of digital money and the rise of fintech empires, while
offering a compelling alternative vision. Don't miss this book
*Jason Hickel, author of Less Is More*
Your head has been deliberately filled with falsehoods and
confusion about money. This brilliant book helps you understand how
that happened, who profits from our collective financial ignorance,
and how we might best fight back. Filled with dazzling insight and
admirable clarity, this is a book you'll soon be recommending far
and wide
*Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved*
Cloudmoney does well to map out how the switch away from cash is
being spun as natural progress... Scott has struck an important
vein, that is vital in a digital age
*Financial Times*
An important reflection on the new world of finance. Brett Scott
writes with gusto about blockchain, crypto and the power nexus
between Big Tech and the banks in a cashless society
*Lionel Barber, author of The Powerful and The Damned*
With this wonderful, lucid and urgently important book, Brett Scott
is hunting big game. Get a copy - and make sure you pay with
cash
*Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands*
Quietly radical and unexpectedly beautiful, this is so much more
than a book about money. Brett Scott propels the reader to a new
understanding of today's capitalism through humour, first-hand
reportage, patient explanation, deep political analysis and a lot
of heart. Let him change the way you see the world - he has for
me
*Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won't Love You Back*
Arise all data donors from your slumber - and read this book. You -
we - have been sucked into the "tech-finance vortex" that is the
new, dangerous alliance of Big Finance and Big Tech. Addicted to
our apps, we are trapped in a dizzying whirlpool of surveillance,
allowing the FinTech vortex to exercise power over, and profit
from, every transaction undertaken. Scott, steeped in the sector,
guides us through it, and helps readers understand what is
happening. He invites us to revolt and jam the Big Fusion. His book
is an urgent must-read
*Ann Pettifor*
In a book that is simultaneously irreverent, hard-hitting and
entertaining, Brett Scott blows apart conventional myths about
cash, digital money, and crypto, and brilliantly shows us what's at
stake in the coming battles for the soul of money
*Stephanie Kelton, Author of The Deficit Myth*
A groundbreaking book
*Morning Star*
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