Money The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
eAudio - 2020
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 money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional g...ambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin.One thing...
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Hachette Audio
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- English
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 162 GB |
Parts | 5 |
ISBN | 9781549197536 |
Release Date | 9/8/2020 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 162 GB |
ISBN | 9781549197536 |
Release Date | 9/8/2020 |