Read up to section 1.1.5 of SICP.
Some notes to self of things I found interesting:
Category: concepts
the ‘increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies’
http://www.ippr.org/publications/definancialisation-a-democratic-reformation-of-finance
“One of the most worrying long-term consequences of financialisation is the reduction in the capacity of democratic states to meet the demands of their citizens over the demands imposed on them by financial and corporate institutions, institutions which are increasingly free from the responsibilities that were imposed upon them by confident social democracies in the middle of the last century.”
http://www.ippr.org/publications/definancialisation-a-democratic-reformation-of-finance
Money from nothing. Paperless money. Became a core tenet of neo liberalism. (Source: postcapitalism)