Brett Scott
Author, Journalist, Economic Anthropologist and Former Financial Broker
Brett Scott is a journalist, campaigner and the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (2013) and Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom (2022). He works on financial reform, alternative finance and economic activism with a wide variety of NGOs, artists, students and start-ups, and writes for publications such as The Guardian, Business Insider, New Scientist, Wired Magazine and CNN.com. He’s is a senior fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab (UK), and publishes the Altered States of Monetary Consciousness newsletter. He tweets as @suitpossum
Written by Brett Scott
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Economics
Going cashless
It’s not in the interests of the ordinary person but it’s not a conspiracy either. A cashless society is a system run amok
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Economics
In praise of cash
Cash might be grungy, unfashionable and corruptible, but it is still a great public good, important for rich and poor alike
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Information and communication
The hacker hacked
The hacker ethos is wild and anarchic, indifferent to the trappings of success. Or it was, until the gentrifiers moved in
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Anthropology
Riches beyond belief
If you want to know what money is, don’t ask a banker. Take a leap of faith and start your own currency
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