Jakob Feinig - Moral Economies - book reviews, excerpts, presentations, articles - Absorbing, revelatory and exceedingly readable, "Moral Economies" is highly recommended to money connoisseurs and freshers alike. For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once widely shared, how and why did it disappear? An introduction to money creation practices since the colonial era, enabling readers to understand why most people are disconnected from knowledge about money creation today. >money production, money system, credit, debt, banking, finance, monetary, politics