Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

Goldstein, host of the popular Planet Money podcast, traces money's history from ancient bartering systems and the invention of coinage through central banking and cryptocurrency, arguing throughout that money has always been a collectively agreed-upon fiction rather than something with inherent, objective value.

The book covers historical episodes of currency innovation and collapse with genuine narrative energy, making clear how repeatedly reinvented and fundamentally arbitrary the concept of money has been across human history, while remaining the single most consequential invented system shaping the modern world.

An engaging, accessible history of money from the host of NPR's Planet Money.

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