[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 197 KB, 250x201, 157914839659.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18168424 No.18168424 [Reply] [Original]

Good books about currency? Like the history or theory behind it.

>> No.18168456
File: 31 KB, 416x436, 1546623807800.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18168456

>>18168424
hehe kot

>> No.18168458

A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind

>> No.18168496

The Ascent of Money by Niall Fergusson. I haven't read the book though, just watched the documentary, but I really liked it. Keep in mind that Niall is a conservative.

>> No.18168506

>>18168458
This and the babylonian woe.

>> No.18168512
File: 305 KB, 668x1000, 2482BADF-D256-4F33-A7FE-35194081D510.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18168512

>>18168424
Most mind blowing book I’ve ever read. Unironically.

>> No.18168527

>>18168424
Currently reading Debt. Really good and insightful so far.

>> No.18168692

>>18168424
The Money Illusion by Irving Fisher

>> No.18168699
File: 699 KB, 674x386, a53.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18168699

>>18168456

>> No.18168701

>>18168458
Best history book

>> No.18168734
File: 119 KB, 781x1220, EA748F2F-116A-4044-89E8-E4F5971C7F9E.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18168734

>>18168496
Tory git.
Best off just watching the doc I guess

>> No.18168890
File: 1.25 MB, 1596x938, ((())).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18168890

>>18168496

>> No.18169058

spice and wolf

>> No.18169997

>>18168512
Why? Seems interesting.

>> No.18170003

>>18169058
XD
Based weaboo.

>> No.18170216

>>18168458
This

>> No.18170337

>>18169997
The book flips the entire history of money on it's head. The big broad sweeping stories we are taught in school and by society about 'how things are' are all a bunch of horse shit, and Graeber goes through it all systematically and historically to debunk these traditional notions.

>> No.18170520

>>18170337
Uh, nice. Added to my list. However, do you have any criticism or warning? The author is an anarchist, idk.

>> No.18170531

>>18170520
>The author is an anarchist, idk.
problems weren't

>> No.18170543

>>18170520
He doesn’t really do a lot of analysis of modern times is the major thing I found lacking. He discusses the drop of the gold standard and then speculates a bit after that. But really, with how long the book was already and the kind of criticism he would get from modern critics, I wouldn’t blame him.

>> No.18170545

>>18170520
>The author is an anarchist, idk.
yes, but he's also a trained anthropologist, who has done field work in Madagascar. My only complaint is that he has a section on "Moral Confusion", but doesn't seem to offer any ways out.

>> No.18170822

>>18168458
Based

>> No.18171005

>>18168512
Haha what a brainlet.

>> No.18171042

>>18171005
:( I know u r but what am I?

>> No.18172124

>>18170545
>Moral confusion
Not surprising for an anarchist. It's literally their entire argument against "le authority"

>> No.18172246

Capital unironically

>muh muh murderous ideology.!,

It's an economic analysis of money.

>> No.18172297

>>18168424
wealth of nations?
the analysis introduction in the penguin copy is required reading if you want to read TWN.