“Fiat money,” reads one of many such panegyrics, “is the most significant innovation in money since the Lydians minted their ...
To be completely fair, money is important. It would be a blatant lie to say that having more money in the bank wouldn't change most peoples' lives for the better. From being able to buy better clothes ...
Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...