Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

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 ancien…

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