Unready-made money

A reading of Ester Barinaga Martín, Remaking money for an inclusive and sustainable future: money commons, Bristol University Press, 2024

Abstract

This text reviews Ester Barinaga Martín’s book, Remaking money for an inclusive and sustainable future: money commons (2024). It begins by presenting the book’s general argument and outline, then opens a discussion on four points: the cases the book deals with and those it does not; the notion of a “perpetuum mobile” introduced by the author; the consequences of an approach to money through imaginaries on the notions of good and bad money; and eventually, the articulation between interactional and institutional approaches to money.