From the Book - First trade paperback edition.
Inventing Money. The origin of money --
When we invented paper money, had an economic revolution, then tried to forget the whole thing ever happened --
The Murderer, the Boy King, and the Invention of Capitalism. How goldsmiths accidentally re-invented banks (and brought panic to Britain) --
How to get rich with probability --
Finance as time travel : inventing the stock market --
John Law gets to print money --
The invention of millionaires --
More Money. Everybody can have more money --
But really : can everybody have more money? --
Modern Money. The gold standard : a love story --
Just don't call it a central bank --
Money is dead, long live money --
Twenty-First-Century Money. How two guys in a room invented a new kind of money --
A brief history of the Euro (and why the dollar works better) --
The radical dream of digital cash --