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Almightier : How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin by Paul Vigna (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250343283
ISBN-139781250343284
eBay Product ID (ePID)24070922903
Product Key Features
Book TitleAlmightier : How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicFinance / General, Social History, Money & Monetary Policy
GenreBusiness & Economics, History
AuthorPaul Vigna
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2025-005251
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Greed dominates the modern world. But where did our obsession with money and wealth come from? Does it represent the best possible way to run our lives? Or is there some better way? Anyone interested in these questions should read this book. Paul Vigna's reinterpretation of world history is original, compelling, and thought-provoking. The perfect read for our unstable times." --Simon Johnson, 2024 Economics Nobel Prize winner and coauthor of Power and Progress "A brilliant exploration of how our faith in money has shaped history and continues to define our world today. With his trademark clarity and insight, Vigna makes the abstract come alive, taking readers on a journey that's as engaging as it is enlightening." --Kabir Sehgal, bestselling author of Coined "Religion and money are society's two most powerful inventions. Both have tapped deeply into human imagination to play equal parts in the construction - and destruction - of civilizations. In this gem of a book, Paul Vigna takes us on a rollicking, 5000-year journey to show just how intertwined these two dangerous ideas have always been and what their past tells us about ourselves and our future." --Michael Casey, co-author of Our Biggest Fight
SynopsisThe complete story of how we came to worship money, and how we can stop greed from destroying everything. The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us revere billionaires and Wall Street rain-makers, then complain about "the system" being rigged, and wonder why the country doesn't seem to work for the little guy anymore. Some blame the Deep State for income inequality and corruption, and others blame capitalism, but the truth is that these issues have much deeper roots: our devotion to money is a manmade invention that has transformed over thousands of years to replace religion as the foundation of our society, and it is tearing civilization apart. In The Almightier , journalist Paul Vigna uncovers the forgotten history of money, tracing the uneasy and often accidental alliance between wealth and religion as it developed from ancient city-states to today's secular world, where religious devotion has receded and greed has stepped in to fill the void. Through engaging anecdotes, original research, and fresh perspectives on the causes of the many challenges we face today, Vigna makes a compelling argument that money has no power apart from the power we give it. We can build a better future, where we don't need to choose between helping others and getting ahead. But we can't repair the damage that greed has done until we understand how it took over our world in the first place.
LC Classification NumberHG220.3.V54 2025
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