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"""Money is the most central, and probably misunderstood commodity in modern economies. This book digs beneath the fetish to unearth the real nature of money.""- Giorgos Kallis, ICTA-UAB, Spain “At once wide-ranging and incisive, Alf Hornborg offers a critique of the pivotal role money plays in our modern predicaments from growing inequalities to destruction of our common habitat, to sociability itself. He calls for a redesign of this human artifact.” - Stephen Gudeman, University of Minnesota, USA “Alf Hornborg is a pioneer of ecosemiotics. This is a field that is necessary to live with biodiversity in the coming millennia. The book explains why money as a semiotic force together with excessive energy as a physical force destroys diversity. A must for future designers, it also helps to understand the ecosystem's way to live in balance.”- Kalevi Kull, University of Tartu, Estonia “After the sudden death of David Graeber, Alf Hornborg offers the most radical critique of value, money, and fetishism.” - Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo, Japan"

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Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.

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