For a good history of the use of gold as money see The power of gold: the history of an obsession by Peter Bernstein: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249

For a good history of the use of gold as money see The power of gold: the history of an obsession by Peter Bernstein: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249245.The_Power_of_Gold https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249245.The_Power_of_Gold * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_L._Bernstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_L._Bernstein Also good are Money : the true story of a made-up thing by Jacob Goldstein (also of NPR's Planey Money) and Debt: The First 5000 Years by Graeber: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years