The Power of Money: How Ideas about Money Shaped the Modern World

Shows how beliefs about money, as well as attitudes and values towards it, have varied between societies and specifically how they have changed over the modern era since 1900
Discusses the creation of a global money space, which the author dates to the last quarter of the 20th century, and explores its features
Describes features of the new money society that inhabits the global money space and shows how each society, and indeed successive generations of the same society, has made its own unique arrangements to govern money