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Dewey Decimal Number: 332 EAN: 9781897766408 ISBN: 1897766408 Label: Jon Carpenter Publishing Manufacturer: Jon Carpenter Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: August 01, 1998 Publisher: Jon Carpenter Publishing Studio: Jon Carpenter Publishing Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A lucid and original account of where money comes from and why most people and businesses are so heavily in debt. It explodes more myths than any other book this century, yet it's all about subjects very close to home: mortgages, building societies and banks, agriculture, transport, global poverty, and what's on the supermarket shelf. The author proposes a new mechanism for the supply of money, creating a supportive financial environment and a decreasing reliance on debt. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Grip of ConfusionThe thesis of this book is: 1. Debt/credit and borrowing/lending are very bad things; and 2. Banks around the world are engaging in a conspiracy to damage mankind There is no credible evidence presented to support either proposition. To the contrary, the author damages his credibility by engaging in speculative conspiracy theories. All evidence of the benefits of the financial system is ignored by the author. Ultimately, this book is just another anti ... Read More Rating:  - Causes a bit of contention this one, doesn't it!I read this book myself a couple of years back. I am not an economist. I recommend the book whole heartedly - please buy it today. If Rowbotham's basic arguments are correct, the subject matter is a vital issue for us and our children. For me the book appealed on both an intuitive and rational basis - it rang so many bells, struck so many chords with me that I will refuse to believe that the key ideas proposed are fundamentally incorrect until someone gives me some specific counter arguments. ... Read More Rating: - READ SILVIO GESELLAnyone interested in the topic of money and credit (debt), and the associated topic of economic crises, poverty etc, please (...) Although I very much like the work of Murray Rothbard and other austrian economists (von Mises) on monetary economics, they never understood the matter like Silvio Gesell did. The solutions of the Austrian economists (free banking, without the cartel of the central bank) will not liberate the world. They just propose to go back to ... Read More Rating:  - Partially right but mostly wrong...The Grip of Death is a 326 page attempt to blame our current economic ills on the banking system. While the book makes many valid points about the evil of the current debt based monetary system the author's statist tendencies causes him to propose a solution that is no better than the system that he criticizes. It seems that Mr. Rowbotham has no real problem with irredeemable fiat currency that destroys the purchasing power of savers by continual expansion of the money supply as long as that destruction ... Read More Rating: - Vituperative responses seem organizedI also think everyone should read this book - if only for the eye-opening British and American monetary history. I also noticed that the vicious attackers' comments all came close upon one another at two dates - Oct and Dec, clustered within a few days. Looks like this book is making some one/institution very nervous. I say that vouches for it's accuracy (and that they had nothing factual to offer, outiside of name-calling.) Please read this book. 
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