From 1865 to 1870, a crisis atmosphere hovered around the issue of the massive public debt created during the recently concluded Civil War, leading, in part, to the passage of a Constitutional Amendment ensuring the “validity of the public debt.” However, the Civil War debt crisis was not a...

"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the...

Christoph Türcke geht den archaischen Ursprüngen des Geldes nach und entwickelt eine historisch-philosophische Genealogie, die von den sakralen Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart reicht. Detektivisch legt er offen, wie es zur "Plusmacherei" und wie es zur Münze kam. Er stellt das kapitalistische...