About This Series
This series, Currencies of Control, traces the moral architectures of money—how currencies have been used across civilizations to enable extraction, stabilize regimes, and silently orchestrate asymmetries. Each article is a self-contained essay, yet forms part of a historical arc examining the evolution of monetary authority, from sacred bans on usury to algorithmic control in the age of programmable finance.
Structured around the ethical question—Stability for whom? Loss for whom?—each entry blends historical vignettes, conceptual interludes, and case-based reflections to reveal how monetary regimes enact control not only through economics, but through time, law, and belief.
Available Files
- Foreword (PDF) – introducing the arc and guiding questions of the series.
More articles will be published in this space as the series unfolds.