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Loved this! I have a disorder call Dyscalculia, which makes it extremely difficult to understand numbers. It wasn’t until I discovered economic theory that I realized I wasn’t intellectually inferior. Reading about theories of money (especially Modern Monetary Theory) was like reading the most thrilling spy novel. I think a great deal about the ways money has influenced culture. I did my graduate work at CalArts many years ago. In my time there, the goal was to be a great artist. Cut to the mid aughts and a conversation I had with then current CalArts students – their goal was to become millionaires before reaching thirty years old. I was flabbergasted. How had this happened? I started searching for answers. Someone you would both love, I think, is Robert Hockett, a professor of economics at Cornell. He anchors everything in history. If you don’t know his work, here’s a fantastic video introduction to Robert. Thanks so much for this podcast. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qdR4ujneQzo

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That was very interesting. Thank you! Now the O'Jays song For The Love of Money is stuck in my head. Too bad, yet so ironic, Trump used it as the theme for The Apprentice. So glad his face is not on money as much as he'd want that along with his mug on Mt. Rushmore!

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