Stefan Eich

TheoristModern

Author of The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton UP, 2022; APSA Foundations Best First Book Prize 2023, Spitz Prize 2024) — an intellectual history arguing money is an institution of political rule that democratic publics must reclaim from depoliticized central banks and private issuers. The debate around the book is still live and he is in it: a Review of Politics symposium with his response (January 2025) and a boundary2 essay on democracy and the political limits of monetary politics (December 2024).