Mikkel Krause Frantzen is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several books, including Going Nowhere, Slow (2019), Klodens Fald (2021) and Slutspil (2024), and a literary critic at the Danish newspaper Politiken. He has been part of the research project “Finance Fiction - Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century”, co-edited the book Finance Aesthetics – A Critical Glossary (Goldsmiths Press, 2024) and has written extensively on financialisation and financial fictions of the 1970s from Paul Erdman to William Gaddis.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 1973 – A Monument to Radical Instants1. A Genre of Crisis, a Crisis of Genre2. Holy Trinity: Money, Gold and Oil (the Brave New World after Bretton Woods)Intermezzo I: Funny-Money Land 3. A Question of CharacterIntermezzo II: The Silences of the Financial Thriller4. The Bull and the Bear, or, The Thrilling Drama of FinanceIntermezzo III: The Art of Finance5. The Author as Mansplainer: Pedagogical and Moral LessonsConclusion: This Is Not an EndingBibliographyNotesIndex

A timely exploration of a curiously pedantic yet thrill-seeking genre which Mikkel Krause Frantzen aptly describes as finance’s own dream-image.

Mikkel Krause Frantzen is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several books, including Going Nowhere, Slow (2019), Klodens Fald (2021) and Slutspil (2024), and a literary critic at the Danish newspaper Politiken. He has been part of the research project “Finance Fiction - Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century”, co-edited the book Finance Aesthetics – A Critical Glossary (Goldsmiths Press, 2024) and has written extensively on financialisation and financial fictions of the 1970s from Paul Erdman to William Gaddis.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 1973 – A Monument to Radical Instants1. A Genre of Crisis, a Crisis of Genre2. Holy Trinity: Money, Gold and Oil (the Brave New World after Bretton Woods)Intermezzo I: Funny-Money Land 3. A Question of CharacterIntermezzo II: The Silences of the Financial Thriller4. The Bull and the Bear, or, The Thrilling Drama of FinanceIntermezzo III: The Art of Finance5. The Author as Mansplainer: Pedagogical and Moral LessonsConclusion: This Is Not an EndingBibliographyNotesIndex

A timely exploration of a curiously pedantic yet thrill-seeking genre which Mikkel Krause Frantzen aptly describes as finance’s own dream-image.

Mikkel Krause Frantzen is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several books, including Going Nowhere, Slow (2019), Klodens Fald (2021) and Slutspil (2024), and a literary critic at the Danish newspaper Politiken. He has been part of the research project “Finance Fiction - Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century”, co-edited the book Finance Aesthetics – A Critical Glossary (Goldsmiths Press, 2024) and has written extensively on financialisation and financial fictions of the 1970s from Paul Erdman to William Gaddis.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 1973 – A Monument to Radical Instants1. A Genre of Crisis, a Crisis of Genre2. Holy Trinity: Money, Gold and Oil (the Brave New World after Bretton Woods)Intermezzo I: Funny-Money Land 3. A Question of CharacterIntermezzo II: The Silences of the Financial Thriller4. The Bull and the Bear, or, The Thrilling Drama of FinanceIntermezzo III: The Art of Finance5. The Author as Mansplainer: Pedagogical and Moral LessonsConclusion: This Is Not an EndingBibliographyNotesIndex

A timely exploration of a curiously pedantic yet thrill-seeking genre which Mikkel Krause Frantzen aptly describes as finance’s own dream-image.