The history of money review: What made the world go ’round

Money is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. But crises of credit have been with us since ancient times.
The New York Times

Making Sense of Dollars and Cents

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 ...
Tribune-Star

Mark Franke column: Book on history of money traces fascinating story arc

We think of money these days as anything but tangible. Venmo accounts, credit and debit cards, ACH transfers—we don’t really touch “real” money anymore. And so we can’t appreciate its importance in ...
insider.si.edu

A history of money and banking in the United States : the colonial era to World War II / Murray N. Rothbard ; ed ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno

Introduction / Joseph T. Salerno -- pt. 1. The history of money and banking before the twentieth century -- pt. 2. The origins of the Federal Reserve -- pt. 3. From Hoover to Roosevelt : the Federal ...