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ISBN
9780316417204

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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
0316417203
ISBN-13
9780316417204
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8057243113

Product Key Features

Book Title
Money : the True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Money & Monetary Policy
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author
Jacob Goldstein
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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"It is rare for a work on a subject so fraught with interpretation and misinterpretation to be both funny and accessible, beautiful and conversational, but Goldstein's Money hits the bullseye in every respect. It made me look at my wallet and its musty contents with fresh eyes. A must-read."-- Gary Shteyngart, author of the New York Times bestsellers Little Failure and Super Sad True Love Story
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
332.49
Synopsis
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 to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin. One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad. Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.

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