**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**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 st...

**A well-researched and entertaining look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs, from the co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money."Should be required reading." —The New York Times**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 st...

Humans invented money from nothing, so why can't we live without it? And why does no one understand what it really is? In this lively tour through the centuries, Jacob Goldstein charts the story of this paradoxical commodity, exploring where money came from, why it matters and whether bitcoin will still exist in twenty years.Full of interesting stories and quirky facts - from the islanders who used huge stones as a means of exchange to the merits of universal basic income - this is...

L’une des histoires les plus anciennes ayant façonné l’humanité (peut-être la plus inattendue !) est sans aucun doute celle de la monnaie. Qu’ils soient chefs d’État, aventuriers, penseurs ou simples marchants, des hommes se sont un jour rendu compte que la monnaie était une invention très utile pour réguler l’économie et décider de la répartition des richesses… Dissimulée derrière l’histoire de la monnaie se cache donc une série de choix économiques, sociétaux et politiques.Pourta...

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 ...

The cohost of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at money, 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 sh...

錢，是一種虛構的東西，是人們的共同想像。如果大家相信那是錢，那就是錢！★《出版人週刊》商業與經濟類十大推薦書單★★美國國家公共廣播電台（NPR）熱門播客節目《金錢星球》主持人傾力之作★★理解動盪時代的絕佳貨幣史入門讀物★▋錢，是怎麼誕生的？又經歷過哪些演變？◆ 金融的本質是時間旅行：儲蓄是把資源從現在挪到未來，融資是把資源從未來挪回現在。◆ 曾經盛行百年的「金本位制」，為什麼最終被棄而不用？金本位制崩潰之後，金融秩序要依靠什麼維繫？◆ 二○○八年引發的金融危機，最嚴重的還不是荒謬的房貸，而是背後冒出了一個影子銀行系統！◆ 比特幣真能擺脫銀行霸權嗎？未來有沒有可能沒有現金、甚至沒有銀行？每個人都用過錢，也似乎都知道錢。但錢究竟是什麼？作者在本書開篇便一針見血點破，錢是人類共謀的虛構之物，我們在金錢上做出的選擇造就了如今身處的世界。跟隨作者機智與充滿趣味的講述，一段重新理解金錢的探索之旅即將開啟。這是一本最...

A geneticist explains the science behind genetic history and what it has revealed about Jewish originsWho are the Jews? Where did they come from? What is the connection between an ancient Jewish priest in Jerusalem and today's Israeli sunbather on the beaches of Tel Aviv? These questions stand at the heart of this engaging book. Geneticist David Goldstein analyzes modern DNA studies of Jewish populations and examines the intersections of these scientific findings with the history (b...

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual conte...

The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed exploration which assumes the reader has no prior acquaintance with the topic.Together, the stud...

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, so...

The fiftieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference served as an opportunity to reappraise the desirability of strengthening the IMF's oversight of the functioning of the international monetary system. Whatever the design of an exchange rate system and the arrangements for the provision of international liquidity, it is widely accepted that to be effective such oversight must rest on a strong analytic foundation. These two volumes, edited by Jacob A. Frenkel and Morris Goldstein, present...