This collection of essays traverses economics, politics, philosophy, and anthropology to probe the structures and myths that shape our world: from Afterlife to Anarchism, Fascism to Firm Behaviour, Money to Myth, Technology to Utopia. Author Guido Preparata explores how innovation unsettles institutions, how superstition shadows philosophy, and how power sustains itself through imitation, debt, and belief. Engaging with thinkers like Bataille, Jünger, Veblen, and Steiner, these writings resist academic constructs to map the dynamic, often violent interplay of economic theory, industrial organization, religion, and cultural change. You are invited to rethink the paradigms that govern both everyday life and grand historical shifts.
In alphabetical order. To view by topic, use the links to the right.
The Affaire Moro and Notes for a Reinterpretation of the Cold War and the Nature of Terrorism
A Tale of America’s Hegemonic Exigencies Recounted Through the Undulations of the US Balance of Payments (1946–2015)
Pre-Keynesian Heterodoxy in Macro-monetary Dynamics
A Strictly Economic Appreciation of the Chinese Practice of Burning (Token) Money
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
Segment originally excised form the first edition of The Ideology of Tyranny
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
The vision of reformer Silvio Gesell
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
The Bills of Exchange of Schacht and Rearmament in the Third Reich
Defiance Interpreted through a Veblenian Reformulation of Strain Theory
The Ugly epoch —An Analysis of the 1960-90 Crime Wave
Sparse Reflections on the Heresies of Social Credit
The emergence of the Third Reich, punctuated by Germany’s economic recovery (1933–1938), stands as a most intriguing episode in the history of Europe...
The ways of our system, an outline, from Bretton Woods to the financial slump of 2008
A Plea for a Regional and Perishable Currency
J. M. Keynes’s Plagiarism fo Silvio Gesell’s Monetary Economics
The “Diabolic” Idiom of French Postmodernism and the “Politics of Diversity” in America
The Political Economy of Fernando Pessoa
Rudolf Steiner and the Social Economics of an Anarchist Utopia
How IKEA came to Belie Veblen’s Nordic Idea
Taking Stock of an Anarchistic Dream after 30 Years of Militancy
Drugs and Legalization in the West at the Dawn of the Third Millennium
The Neo-Conservatism of Control Theory and the Ethos of Crime
Seminal Notions for Construing Modern Societies as (Horrifying) Mechanized Anthems
A Modest Monetary and Organizational Proposal for Re-launching the Economic Welfare of Communities
The Story of a Political Soldier and Elements for the Sociology of Terrorism
The travelogues and twisted science of Thorstein Veblen
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
The New Politology of Eric Wilson
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
Bataille, Derrida & the Postmodern Denial of the Gift
