ドミニク・フリスビー（Dominic Frisby）は、金や通貨、租税を主題に執筆するイギリスの金融ライター、コメディアン、声優。経済誌『MoneyWeek』で長年にわたり金と投資についてコラムを書き、『ガーディアン』『インディペンデント』にも寄稿した。金融ニュースレター「The Flying Frisby」を発行する一方、舞台では風刺的な歌や経済を題材にした公演を行い、BBC Radio 4では金融を扱うコメディ番組「More Money than Sense」と「Damned Lies」の司会も務めた。経済の仕組みを舞台で語る活動は、エディンバラ・フリンジの一人芝居「Let’s Talk About Tax」から発展した『税金の世界史』（原題 “Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future”、2019年、日本語版2021年）にもつながった。同書では、古代の徴税から宗教、戦争、革命に至る歴史を税の視点でたどり、窓やひげへの課税などの事例を交えながら、技術革新と社会の変化に対応する税制のあり方を検討した。続く『ゴールド 金の世界史』（原題 “The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics and Power”、2025年、日本語版2026年）では、長年の金についての執筆を背景に、金の起源から神話、征服、帝国の形成、現代金融へと対象を広げた。装飾や富の象徴であるとともに通貨や権力の基盤となってきた金を軸に、人間の欲望、探検、戦争の歴史をたどり、中国やロシアによる採掘・保有とデジタル時代における金の役割まで考察した。
Dominic Frisby is a British financial writer, comedian, and voice actor whose writing focuses on gold, money, and taxation. He has written about gold and investment for MoneyWeek for many years and has contributed to The Guardian and The Independent. Alongside his financial newsletter, The Flying Frisby, he has performed satirical songs and shows about economics. He also hosted the BBC Radio 4 financial comedy programmes More Money than Sense and Damned Lies. His work connecting economics with live performance led from the Edinburgh Fringe one-man show Let’s Talk About Tax to Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future (2019), published in Japanese as Zeikin no Sekaishi in 2021. The book traced taxation from the ancient world through its involvement in religion, war, and revolution. Examples such as taxes on windows and beards accompanied its examination of how tax systems could respond to technological and social change. Drawing on his longstanding writing about gold, The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics and Power (2025) broadened the historical scope from the metal’s origins to mythology, conquest, empire, and modern finance. Its Japanese translation, Gold: Kin no Sekaishi, appeared in 2026. Treating gold as both an ornament and a store of wealth, as well as a foundation of currency and political power, the book followed the connections between the metal and human ambition, exploration, and war. It also considered Chinese and Russian mining and holdings, and gold’s continuing role in a digital economy.
