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

informative fast-paced

4.0

Goldstein's discussion of the history of money from ancient Mesopotamia to Bitcoin, is readable and accessible to nonexperts. Written in a tongue-in-cheek, chatty style, Goldstein packs his book with rich details and colorful characters from the history of money. While much less academic than Martin's Money or Graeber's Debt, Goldstein's book draws on a lot of the research and ideas in those denser discussions, adds his own spice to the narrative, and serves up a fun and digestible popular history.