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

3.0

Another podcast turned pop science book, this one offering a whirlwind tour of the history of money as a concept, from its earliest known appearance in ancient civilizations through today's cutting-edge developments of cryptocurrency and MMT. Author Jacob Goldstein clearly knows his material, but he tends to breeze through it a bit too quickly for a reader like me who has difficulty with some of these abstract (and at times counterintuitive) economic theories. Although I've learned a few things from this title, it's generally lacking the level of detail and patient explanation that I at least would require for all of its lessons to really sink in.

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