Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
I Inventing Money l
Chapter 1 The Origin of Money 3
Chapter 2 When We Invented Paper Money, Had an Economic Revolution, Then Tried to Forget the Whole Thing Ever Happened 13
II The Murderer, the Boy King, and the Invention of Capitalism 25
Chapter 3 How Goldsmiths Accidentally Re-Invented Banks (and Brought Panic to Britain) 27
Chapter 4 How to Get Rich with Probability 35
Chapter 5 Finance as Time Travel: Inventing the Stock Market 45
Chapter 6 John Law Gets to Print Money 55
Chapter 7 The Invention of Millionaires 63
III More Money 75
Chapter 8 Everybody Can Have More Money 77
Chapter 9 But Realty: CAN Everybody Have More Money? 89
IV Modern Money 99
Chapter 10 The Gold Standard: A Love Story 101
Chapter 11 Just Don't Call It a Central Bank 117
Chapter 12 Money Is Dead. Long Live Money 135
V Twenty-First-Century Money 149
Chapter 13 How Two Guys in a Room Invented a New Kind of Money 151
Chapter 14 A Brief History of the Euro (and Why the Dollar Works Better) 169
Chapter 15 The Radical Dream of Digital Cash 187
Conclusion: The Future of Money 213
Acknowledgments 227
Notes 229
Index 243