You have been taught four things about money: that it is a store of value, a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a neutral veil over the real economy. Think Again is the book that weighs those four sayings against the working record — and finds them wanting.Drawing on seventeen years of published research, Roger G. Lewis takes the reader from the Bank of Amsterdam in 1609 to the BlackRock "e;Going Direct"e; proposal of 2019, from Lycurgus's iron currency to the algorithmic gatekeeper of the CBDC era. The argument is not ideological. It is archival. The witnesses — central bankers, monetary historians, dissenting economists, and the institutions' own published confessions — are cited at length and at primary source.Volume One of the CityCam trilogy. The credit-money settlement, examined from inside.

You have been taught four things about money: that it is a store of value, a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a neutral veil over the real economy. Think Again is the book that weighs those four sayings against the working record — and finds them wanting.Drawing on seventeen years of published research, Roger G. Lewis takes the reader from the Bank of Amsterdam in 1609 to the BlackRock "e;Going Direct"e; proposal of 2019, from Lycurgus's iron currency to the algorithmic gatekeeper of the CBDC era. The argument is not ideological. It is archival. The witnesses — central bankers, monetary historians, dissenting economists, and the institutions' own published confessions — are cited at length and at primary source.Volume One of the CityCam trilogy. The credit-money settlement, examined from inside.