The book explores issues of money in a comprehensive yet non-technical manner for the benefit of students,
interested observers, and policymakers. To do justice to this subject, the book returns to basic economics and
finance, and undertakes a tour d’horizon on the role of money and its origins. The history of money discussed
in this book and the various theories of money, provide a rich panoply and context of ideas from which the
book develops its key messages. Controversial yet absorbing.