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It has definitely changed my view on what money is and how it came to be. And how political money really is, like a king can say from now one 1 gold coin equals 11 silver coins etc. Another one is the book "And forgive them their debts" by Michael Hudson talking about ancient debt jubilee in the middle east. If i'm not mistaken one of the sources for debt: the first 5000 years book.


> It has definitely changed my view on what money is and how it came to be.

You may be interested in Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein (of NPR's Planet Money).

* https://bookshop.org/books/money-the-true-story-of-a-made-up...


Thanks for the tip I will put it on my ever growing reading list.


Absolute same for me. It challenged core beliefs which I had no idea ever would be. Thanks for the tip on the book.




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