How Money Dominates Human Lives Everywhere / Arjun Jayadev

About this episode

Arjun Jayadev discusses his book 'Against Money' and the pervasive influence of money in human lives.

Educator and author Arjun Jayadev joins This Is Hell! to talk about the new book published by The University Of Chicago Press that he co-wrote with J.W. Mason called “Against Money”, which talks about how money has gotten to dominate the lives of humans world wide as it become the most influential human creation. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo265118979.html Arjun Jayadev is professor of economics and director of the Centre for the Study of the Indian Economy at Azim Premji University in India. He has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He is also a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. His research combines quantitative and theoretical analysis of Finance, Development, Political Economy and Intellectual Property. He is also a fellow at the Groundwork Collective. https://groundworkcollaborative.org/ We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

People in this episode

Host: This Is Hell!

Guest: Arjun Jayadev

Topics covered

• money
• economics
• political economy
• human lives
• development

Keywords

• money
• economics
• Arjun Jayadev
• Against Money
• political economy
• development
• human creation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The University Of Chicago Press, Azim Premji University, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Groundwork Collective

Books & works: Against Money

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