Confidence Games
Money and Markets in a World without Redemption
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Paper Trails
Counterfeit Detectors
Displacements
Currency of Art
Games and Play
2. Marketing Providence
"Holy Shit!"
Market Makers
Invisible Hand
3. Figuring Capital
Artistic Absolute
Economic Absolute
Art of Finance
4. Money Matters
Losing Weight
Going Private
5. Specters of Capital
Networking the Economy
Creation ex Nihilo
Collateral Damage
6. Yahoo Nation
From Las Vegas to Times Square
Finance-Entertainment Complex
Com Games
7. Difference Engines
From Wall Street to Las Vegas
Balancing the Books
Random Walks
8. In-Securities
Unbalancing the Books
Complexity and Contradictions in Markets
9. Rustling Religion
Return of the Repressed
Three Types of Theology of Culture
New Realities
Notes
Index
"Long before the global credit system collapsed in 2007, Mark Taylor connected the dots between financial markets and the larger cultural forces that are rendering our world increasing complex. Taylor offers original insights into how our thinking about money has reshaped our world in ways that we are just coming to grips with. Readers with an interest in financial markets, art and culture, and indeed the future of American society, need to read this book immediately."
"Before the global credit system began its collapse in 2007, Mark Taylor had connected the dots between increasingly complex financial instruments and larger cultural forces. Anyone who wants to understand the disappearing foundation of our financial markets needs to read this book immediately."
American Academy of Religion: American Academy of Religion Awards for Excellence
Short Listed
Art: Art--General Studies
Economics and Business: Economics--General Theory and Principles
Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion
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