Interest: Loan, Justiciable, Reckless: "The Money Civilization" and the Present-Day Crisis

by Valentin Katasonov

This book aims to explain the socio-economic model of the modern world. It’s called by different ways: “market economy”, “post-industrial society”, “capitalism”, etc. However, this kind of terms can’t fully disclose the essence of this model. Author calls it - “the monetary civilization”. It is based on usurious capital, which represented now by banks, investment funds and other finance companies. Usurious capital build the global financial pyramid, and with its help operates the majority of humanity and implements economic and political control all over the world. The book reveals the structure and functioning of the financial pyramid. It presents a historical overview of the centuries-old moneylender’s struggle for power, which the author called “permanent monetary revolution”. The special attention is paid to Russia, which has also been dragged into the global financial pyramid and took there one the lower floors. The book also contains an overview of alternative economic models and suggests ways to save the world from the power of moneylenders.

706 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 24, 2014

About the author

Valentin Yuryevich Katasonov (born April 5, 1950 , USSR ) - Russian scientist - economist , doctor of economic sciences . Specialist in the fields of environmental economics and international finance (international monetary and credit relations, banks and banking business, gold in international finance). Author of monographs and textbooks, renowned publicist. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Economic Sciences and Entrepreneurship Publicist, author of about 40 scientific monographs, books, philosophical reflections and publicistic works.

Valentin Katasonov graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of MGIMO in 1972 with a degree in Foreign Trade Economist. In 1991-93. - UN consultant (Department of International Economic and Social Problems - DIESA). In 1993-96. Member of the Advisory Board to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In 1995-2000. - Deputy Director of the Russian Program for Organization of Investments in Environmental Remediation (World Bank Environmental Management Project). In 2000-2010. - Economic Advisor to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In 2001-2011. - Head of the Department of International Monetary and Credit Relations, Professor of the Department of International Finance at MGIMO (U) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.