Two things are guaranteed: you will learn a lot, and you will find it very enjoyable! The book gathers fascinating accounts about money that go as far back as ancient times, all the way to the birth of cryptocurrency and the latest moves by the Fed. It’s gripping, in that you don’t want to put it down. ( Log Out / Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, by Jacob Goldstein In keeping with my plan of using my non-fiction audiobook time (at least in part) to learn a little bit about subjects I know very little about, I followed my dip into linguistics with a very user-friendly beginner’s exposure to economics by listening to Jacob Goldstein’s book Money. In his new book, "Money: The True Story Of A Made-Up Thing," he writes that money is a shared fiction. ( Log Out / Welcome! Something went wrong. He is the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2020. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Please try again. Please do yourself the favor and read this book....you may not be able to put it down until it is finished. We all agree to believe that a paper $20 bill or the numbers in … It is even slightly updated for the 2020 pandemic bank runs. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Goldstein is as good of a writer as he is a podcast host! Jacob Goldstein, who co-hosts NPR's Planet Money, has spent years fixated on that question. I generally don’t read much non-fiction. New York, New York 500+ connections All history books should be written like this! ( Log Out / Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. You can find much more information about your privacy choices in our privacy policy. This book was definitely not a chore. It’s like a bonus round of planet money! Change ). Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It’s a really solid historical overview of money that covers the basic economic theory of money today. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2020. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. There are certain things in life that seem so obvious and apparent that you kind of forget to look deep into why they exist at all. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Should be read by as wide an audience as possible. Fascinating look at the history of what we call money. I'm Trudy Morgan-Cole, a writer, teacher and mom of two. Filed under Audiobook, Nonfiction -- general. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. I preordered and the day it came out I dug in and started reading. There’s still a lot about money — what it really is and how it works — that I don’t understand, but I feel a little better informed after reading this book.
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