News Summary

• In a capitalist society, the main numbers are monetary: output and income, prices and profits, assets and debts.
• Against Money is an incisive critique of the relationship between money and the labor and material wealth it is supposed to signify.
• Mason and Arjun Jayadev’s richly illuminating book shows that money in the modern world is actually the resource being measured and the ultimate object of exchange itself.
• They construct a fictional substratum of goods and services in the shadow of a superstructure of recorded payments and imputed prices.