

Money
Author: Ernest Haycox
Narrator: Michael Shearer
Unabridged: 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Audio Holdings
Published: 01/01/2009
Author: Ernest Haycox
Narrator: Michael Shearer
Unabridged: 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Audio Holdings
Published: 01/01/2009
Gave up at about the halfway point. The very thing that made me excited for this book - the fact the author is a co-host of the NPR podcast Planet Money, one of my favorite shows - caused its downfall. This didn't read like a book: it read like a transcript of a bunch of Planet Money episodes. Rathe......more
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it; that's the reality of one of humanity's strangest inventions. In Money, economics columnist, 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 f......more