Money
by Felix Martin · first published 2015
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What is money, and how does it work? From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession. it's a sweeping, historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind's greatest inventions.
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I would highly recommend Felix Martin’s “Money: The Unauthorized Biography” to anyone who is interested in the underlying subject of money. Martin’s basic argument is that money is simply a social technology. I don’t believe that bitcoin is the…
on “What Is Bitcoin: Internet’s Native Money or Asset for Speculation?” ↗Money: The unauthorized biography by Felix Martin discusses money as social technology and its history https://www.amazon.com/Money-Unauthorized-Biography-Coinage-...
on “Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?” ↗…incompleteness theorem fall into place and click while I was doing my bachelors https://www.amazon.in/Godels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081475837... 2. This similarly solidified a lot of patchwork ideas I had about money https://www.amazon.com/Money-Unauthorized-Biography-Coinage-... 3. This didn't make the topic click but it shed light on the entire landscape after which anything I read on unicode made sense and filled…
on “Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?” ↗I read about this in Felix Martin's Money: The Unauthorized Biography, which was quite good (in my uninformed opinion).
on “Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons of gold in New York” ↗A recent book that I read which really helped my outlook on things business was "Money: The Unauthorized Biography" by Felix Martin. Perhaps my general lack of knowledge in the general area made me feel that the book was profound but it's a good read either way. If you prefer fiction,…
on “Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?” ↗Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗"From there, paper currency and credit was added as a more convenient layer onto gold." It's not a universally accepted opinion but I take Martin Felix's view, articulated in "Money," that credit predates coinage. It's turned me off the article and as a consequence I can't read any more.
on “The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system” ↗