Mammon's Ecology: Metaphysic of the Empty Sign

Proverbs 22:22 enjoins the reader Dont take advantage of the poor just because you can. Mammons Ecology is a systematic investigation into the mysterious nature of modern money which confronts us with the perplexing fact that in the global economy as it is we take advantage of the poor whether we want to or not. We destroy natural systems whether we want to or not. Ched Myers describes Mammons Ecology as a workbook about the secret life of money. Where Prather and others have shown that money is one of the perverse Powers described in Ephesians 6 Mammons Ecology details precisely how money exercises this peculiar power and outlines suggestions for Christians who feel trapped in this complicity--not just as individuals but as church. Mammons Ecology is not a book about economics (which the author calls the worlds best antidote to insomnia) but rather a book about the deep ecology of (post)modern power and injustice. Read individually or as a group Mammons Ecology will leave you unable to think about money the same way again. Stan Goff has written that rare book: ambitious yet concise erudite yet accessible. Mammons Ecology is breathtaking. Deftly combining critical political economy and ecological thought with a radical Christian perspective Mammons Ecology should be read by everyone concerned about money ecology and justice. Goff challenges us to unthink the ways of knowing that have made todays planetary crisis and in so doing to begin to think hope and imagine a world beyond modernitys violence. --Jason W. Moore Binghamton University author of Capitalism in the Web of Life In a time when you might feel trapped between the megalomania of the charlatan who purports to explain everything and the bubble mentality of the academic who wont step outside disciplinary fences Goffs work is important. While being directly critical of thinkers who try to come up with simplistic universal explanations or cures Goff also invites the reader to work out just how interconnected everything is. --Rebecca Bratten Weiss farmer lecturer and editor of Convivium Stan Goff has authored five books on war and militarism--including Borderline: Reflections on War Sex and Church (Cascade Books 2015)--on gender and militarism. He has written numerous articles on socioeconomic issues since 1995. This is his first book on monetary ecology. He is a former career soldier a peace activist and a Roman Catholic with latent Mennonite tendencies.