JDN 2456783 PDT 11:34.

A review of Extreme Money by Satyajit Das

I had high hopes for this book; I’ve read quite a few books about the Second Depression now, but this one promised to tie it all together into a coherent narrative about what is wrong with modern capitalism.

But the narrative it delivers is an unconvincing one, filled with cynicism and pessimism about how this is just the way things are and we will have to accept our fate. Das has a weird dissonance in his understanding of the rel...