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The strange past and unsettled future of money

The New Bazaar

CHAPTER

The True Story of a Made Up Thing

Money is fundamentally unalterably social. Money doesn't exist in the world any more than the law exists in the world, right? It only works if a bunch of people get together and decide,. often without realizing they're deciding to, to create a set of rules round what will become money.

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