Another, earlier book that essentially takes the same premise but in a far grander fashion is Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money, which takes money as the centr

Another, earlier book that essentially takes the same premise but in a far grander fashion is Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money, which takes money as the central organizing factor of contemporary society and examines everything from that standpoint. I would highly recommend it; though it's quite long, and if you don't have time to read it all you can start from the last chapter.