This book sets out to provide a scholarly analysis of money and capital, the institutional economic class interests that exist in Ireland, and alternatives to same in the spheres of paid labour and social reproduction. In essence it is a political work in that it picks a side in the debate over these issues.

Money cannot be separated from the society in which it operates. If you want to change society, you need to change for whom the money system operates. In other words, money is power; this book puts forward a way to challenge that power in order to build more more creative, inclusive, and democratic society.