Economic explorer, journalist, author, ex-broker, London
Brett Scott is a journalist, campaigner and the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (2013). 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, New Scientist, Wired Magazine and CNN.com. He produced the 2016 UNRISD report on blockchain technology, and is a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab, an Associate at the Institute of Social Banking and an advisory group member of the Brixton Pound. He helps facilitate a course on power and design at the University of the Arts London, and facilitates workshops on alternative finance with The London School of Financial Arts. He tweets as @suitpossum
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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
Brett Scott