Finance as Warfare

Anyone who wants to understand the long term consequences of today's economic dominance by Wall St. and the big banks, their preponderant influence over government, and the FIRE sector generally, needs to read this short, clear book by Michael Hudson.

The author is focused on the social as well as economic problems with excessive debt - In this book he takes us back to early civilizations and describes both bad results of debt and solutions that were used then

A great book on its own and its about time somebody makes this analogy...

Hudson is the one to read about capitalism’s roots and history..

The book is well researched and well written, but I did find many duplicates throughout the book, where ideas, concepts or examples were being referred to multiple times, almost oblivious to earlier references.

Finance as Warfare is a fascinating book. It's central argument is that if rentiers succeed in tapping too much rent from the productive economy, that is, the economy that produces tangible, real things, it harms the economy.

This is an excellent book to understand the financial landscape in the U.S. today. It is very readable. I highly recommend it.

absolutely great by one of our 2 or 3 greatest living economists

Michael Hudson is one of the few writers on modern economics that unearths and exposes the rot at the center of our global economic system. Written in a style that any layman can access, Finance as Warfare serves as a stark warning that we must either be willing to discuss some uncomfortable truths about economic system (and change it), or continue to suffer a widening wealth disparity along with poverty and debt-slavery for our future generations.

Despite its many typo's this is a brilliant book, outlining in a series of essays how finance swallowed first power then politics and now is swallowing the world... Like Jonah, we need exit from the belly of the whale!

this is more a collection of notes that hint towards his better more established works

A really good small collection of important essays by Michael Hudson. Highly Recommended!

Michael Hudson writes a very readable and understandable analysis of world finance