{"product_id":"extreme-money-the-masters-of-the-universe-the-cult-of-risk","title":"Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe \u0026 the Cult of Risk","description":"\u003cp\u003eSatyajit Das\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook money—a lubricant of society and human well-being—for an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of how this happened—and, in so doing, it tells the story of the modern world.\u003cbr\u003eBestselling author Satyajit Das draws on 33 years of personal experience at the heart of modern global finance to narrate this story. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that have generated increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, Ponzi prosperity, sophistication, and wealth—while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside the financial industry.  Das shows how “extreme money” has become ever more unreal; how “voodoo banking” continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of “Masters of the Universe” has come to dominate the world.   Extreme Money is\u003cbr\u003eThe new financial false gods, false prophets - Faith in money, faith in risk, faith in shadows\u003cbr\u003eThe cult of risk and the growth engine that isn’t - How financial engineering replaced real engineering and illusions replaced reality\u003cbr\u003eFinancial alchemy and the “Doomsday Debt Machine”- The rise of the global financial machine we cannot escape\u003cbr\u003eThe new global oligarchy—and the nihilistic games they pla y - Too smart, too fast, too greedy, too self-absorbed—and far too dangerous  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published October 15, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Very Good \/ Paperback \/ Satyajit Das","offer_id":52334949794090,"sku":"9780273723974","price":34.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/12412713.jpg?v=1787499976","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/extreme-money-the-masters-of-the-universe-the-cult-of-risk","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}