Trading Truth

How Financial Markets Shape Reality
How financial markets fuel conspiracy culture and our crisis of truthand why rethinking finance is democracys most urgent need.

An important book showing that post-truth politics cannot be understood without studying the broader socioeconomic transformation of our times, especially the rise of finance. A must-read. Thomas Piketty

Current debates treat disinformation as if it were a cultural failure, suggesting that our remedies should focus on restoring expertise, fact checking, or media literacy. But what if we are missing the crux of the issue? In Trading Truth, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou argues that we arethat, in fact, distortion is not a glitch of political reality but a systemic feature of finance capitalism. Far from merely corrupting truth, financial marketsfrom machine-learning trading and cryptocurrencies to ETFs and prediction marketsreshape what counts as real a