Los engaños del dinero

Money is one of the pillars of society as we know it. We all use it on a daily basis without its use presupposing any specific knowledge in economic matters; And yet, to understand what it is and how it works, it is necessary to resort to philosophy, even more so when the crises and historical transformations that we are experiencing impose a deep reflection on its role in the contemporary world. In this volume, which is composed of two complementary essays, John R. Searle explains the social function of money, its coercive nature, its capacity to establish rights and links with the same inescapable peremptory nature as a physical imposition; Maurizio Ferraris, on the other hand, goes back to the essence of money, to its function of recording transactions typical of both bitcoin and Roman sesterces. These pages host a fascinating dialogue between two of the greatest contemporary thinkers, gutting, with the sharp theoretical weapons of philosophy, a subject as practical and concrete as money.