October 12, 2020 "What Is Money? This Author Dug Into the Fun History of How a Made-Up Thing Came to Rule the World"
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by Noel Davila Money is a fiction. That doesn’t mean that the bills in your wallet or the numbers in your bank account aren’t real — it just suggests that the only reason money has value is because we believe it does. At least that’s how Jacob Goldstein, host of NPR’s Planet Money, explains it in his recently-released book, "Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.
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