Metaeconomics offers a provocative, deep-dive exploration into the unseen forces that shape our economic reality. In an era of increasing financial uncertainty, institutional distrust, and technological disruption, this book breaks through conventional economic narratives to expose the foundational systems that govern wealth creation, distribution, and control at a global scale.
Rather than examining economics through the usual lenses of supply and demand, policy, or markets, Metaeconomics challenges readers to think beyond the visible?to uncover the meta-layer of economic thought and design. This includes analyzing the power structures behind financial institutions, the legacy of empires embedded in today's monetary systems, and the algorithmic influence of data capitalism in shaping consumer behavior and social dynamics.
Structured into twelve powerful chapters, the book journeys from the roots of economic ideology?capitalism, socialism, and beyond?to the evolution of fiat currency and digital assets. It exposes how modern economies are built not just on trade and production but on control, perception, and systemic design. It investigates how corporations, governments, and financial elites use narrative, data, and technological tools to manage risk, manipulate markets, and maintain dominance.
One of the book's central themes is that global economics functions much like a software system: it is coded, updated, patched, and sometimes hacked. Like an operating system, the world economy has backdoors, monopolies, and protocols understood by only a few. Through historical case studies, institutional critiques, and speculative analysis, Metaeconomics unravels how money has evolved?from gold-backed currencies and Bretton Woods to blockchain and algorithmic stablecoins?and what these transitions mean for the average citizen, investor, and policymaker.
The book also touches on hidden dimensions of geopolitical economics: wars for resources masked as peacekeeping, debt traps disguised as development aid, and environmental destruction justified through GDP growth. It challenges the reader to question the myths of perpetual growth, infinite consumerism, and the neutrality of central banks.
Yet Metaeconomics is not a book of despair?it is a call for awareness and agency. It equips readers with the conceptual tools to understand the economic forces shaping their lives and provides a framework for imagining alternatives to the current model. Whether through decentralized finance, cooperative ownership, or circular economies, the book explores emerging possibilities for a more just and sustainable global system.
This is not just a book for economists. It's for thinkers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy-makers, students, and anyone who senses that the world economy is more than numbers and charts. It's for those who ask, "Who wrote the rules?and who benefits from them?"
Metaeconomics is an invitation to uncover the code behind capitalism, to challenge the architecture of economic power, and to reimagine the future of value creation in a rapidly changing world.