McNally uses them in a creative way to discuss the historical dialectics of money along with theoretical propositions about its ontological and epistemological foundations. These, in the form of exegeses of classical works by Homer, Plato, Aristotle, etc., are also present. The work is, of course, based on the facts of economic history, which, however, are frequently used as examples similar to the anecdotal digressions from fiction often used in philosophical works. The main role in the book is played not only by economic analyses, but also largely by semiotic and anthropological ones. It is first and foremost an interdisciplinary work with considerable philosophical charge, part of the current of critical theory in the broadest sense. It is important to start with the fact that, contrary to what the subject of David McNally’s Blood and Money may suggest, it is not in the strict sense a book on political economy or related disciplines such as economic history and sociology.
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