A review by brishen
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann

5.0

This is a book that changed my thoughts on what money and finance really is. To be honest, I started out disappointed, thinking that I'd bought a book that was going to explain money to me and instead was going on and on about credit and other financial innovations that people came up with over the past few thousand years. It was only after time that I started to put together that this was all money: that you can't disentangle finance and money because they are one and the same part of the process of bringing together the far flung regions of the world, the past, and all possible states of the future, to the here and now. Highly recommend.