Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

by Jacob Goldstein

Book Overview

The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031641719X
• ISBN13: 9780316417198
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"