Managerial Momarchy or, The God of Clownworld LIBRARIAN OF CELAENO For those of you who don’t know, in my daily life I am a schoolteacher. I work at a private high school; my students are all males and mostly seniors. My responsibilities for the last couple of years have been teaching government and economics classes. I tend to approach these subjects the same way I do history, through narrative and illustration rather than quantitative analysis, exploring themes and ideas by way of real-world examples. In economics the central overarching narrative of the class is the 2008 Banking Crisis and the subsequent Great Recession. I introduce the ideas of pride and overreach; the men involved are often thought of as greedy, but as I point out, they have all the money they could ever want already. Greedy men only want more things. The titans of finance want more things than others , particularly their fellow banksters. I explain that much of finance is simply magic, the manipulation of abst
