Brett Scott

A monetary transaction is bi-directional: a credit moves in one direction, and a real good or service moves in the other I’ve spent a long time engaging with public perceptions of money, and one of the weirdest but most common phenomena is the conflation of those two things, and

At first glance, it looks like social conservatives in different cultures stand in opposition to each other, like Christian crusaders defining themselves in opposition to Islamic caliphates, or US hardliners seeing themselves as ‘fundamentally different’ to the Chinese

Historically, all that 'liberalism' really means is the priority of the individual over the collective, and this is why it's so open to abuse and misuse The 'priority of an individual' can refer to an exploitative factory owner (an individual) claiming he's been victimised by

RT @Naomi_Fowler: This looks like a great resource from @Suitpossum A 7-part video series called The Economy: A User’s Guide. https://t.co/…

Remember folks, beekeepers own the hives, but bees make the honey. Billionaires own our hives, but without all of us they make sweet fuck all Happy International Workers' Day! Check out my latest video to delve deeper into this https://t.co/KU7nNBg2Ir

RT @NeilFarnan: Fantastic series from @Suitpossum The Economy: A User's Guide | No.1: Interdependence https://t.co/S7ZfSMhitl via @YouTube

Never before in history have we had such a powerful class of billionaires wielding so much power over us. They affect everything from our politics to the number of cat videos we receive. They direct the talents of idealistic graduate students towards building stupid shit like

I've been working on a big video project for the last few months. It takes you on a journey from the ground level of our economic system to the highest reaches of global corporate capitalism. Here's Part 1 of 7 https://t.co/pkXVjUmZ6N

If you want to see me riffing on the tariff see-saw, I joined @kieran_andrieu on Novara Media yesterday to talk about globalisation and Ha-Joon Chang’s concept of ‘kicking away the ladder’. I’m about 8 minutes in, but the whole show is worth watching https://t.co/3qc7P567tb

I know many people are losing their shit over the impact of the tariffs, but here's a periodic reminder that, regardless of the short-to-medium term impact of these, the global economy remains fundamentally ecologically unsustainable and unfit to support life on our planet in

RT @mrauchs: Excellent article by @Suitpossum raising an important issue with the modern gig economy: “self-employed“ content creators have…

Why your inner libertarian dreams of digital gold https://t.co/vbuipQFZzf https://t.co/nv1MViI3KS

RT @EconWithNick: At a Civil Society Seminar, @Suitpossum shares that CBDCs were originally proposed to "basically kneecap the banking sect…

To be human is to suffer from mind viruses, so as you get rid of one, you need to ask yourself what the new one you're taking on is

To celebrate Valentine’s day, I present to you an essay about the (unromantic) reality of attachments in our economy, and the (romanticised) tales of detachment we get told about them https://t.co/CEOWn0Orbq https://t.co/dh71ivJ3zA

RT @Phil_Free_: “London is a city of endless helpful requests coldly delivered to sound like orders, alongside matey propaganda designed by…