Money

By Jacob Goldstein (narrator),

Book cover of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

Book description

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…

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1 author picked Money as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

So this book only has one chapter on cryptocurrency (and it dismisses it), but it’s still a worthwhile addition to this list, and here’s why:

Money does a great job showing readers what a protean thing money really is and has always been. Every time money is about to make a giant change in human history, people think that change is completely crazy and will never work. And then it happens, and before long people seem to believe that money could have never worked any other way.

Does it sound relevant now?

While Goldstein eloquently explains and then dismisses Bitcoin…

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