Martin Amis’ 1984 novel Money employs its titular trope in myriad ways as a multivalent metaphor. The novel’s narrator, John Self, often addresses money as a force in its own right, one dictating terms to the humans using it. This sense of money as an objective power corresponds to Thatcherite Britain’s monetarist experiment, a foray that, though ultimately abandoned, helped usher in neoliberalism. Thatcher’s neoliberal counselors, such as Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek, treated money as something at once manipulable and autonomous, echoing the novel’s own division between metafiction and realism. Similarly, the novel’s postmodernist gestures—intertexts, the Martin Amis character, and the reflexive nature of Self the narrator—undercut the text’s largely realist arc of a “failed Bildungsoman.” In both monetarism and Money, fabricated social forms are appealed to as stable, independent entities even as they are self-conscious fictions.