Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing - Jacob Goldstein
Language: EnglishKeywords: 
Debt
 Economics
 Finance
 History
 Money
Shared by:daenigma100
The cohost 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 gambler 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 they all realized: What counts as money (and what doesn’t) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad.
Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.
| Announce URL: | |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969 |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969 |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.open-internet.nl:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.tiny-vps.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.demonii.si:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://thetracker.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker2.dler.org:80/announce |
| Creation Date: | Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:10:54 +0100 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| Jacob Goldstein - Money Audiobook.mp3 154.12 MBs | |
| File Size: | 154.12 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 256 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| Info Hash: | 9afcc1f42e8bf1d63b85031848d3ad156e9e2f49 |
| Torrent Download | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips | Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download | Start Direct Download |
| Tips | You could try out alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download | Download Files Now |
| Ad |
|







This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
September 15th, 2020
Sounds interesting. (As an aside: ever encounter a money-hating ideologue who wasn’t, in truth, inordinately obsessed with the stuff? More, More, More, etc.)
September 15th, 2020
Thanks very much!
September 20th, 2021
Can I get some seeds, please? Also, this book delves into Modern Monetary Theory, right? So excited to listen, thanks!
Add a comment (please log in before commenting)