Money and Magic A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe's Faust

In Money and Magic, Binswanger elucidates Goethe's remarkable prediction that, following the Industrial Revolution, economic society would be built on the transformation of natural resources into a continually expanding money supply. Yet Goethe also cautioned of the results should modern society exploit these resources and fail in its responsibility to the natural environment. Goethe meant Faust to be a warning to modern economic society.