Money is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. But crises of credit have been with us since ancient times.

AI, like money before it, is fundamentally a coordination technology that's reorganizing society, but unlike money's gradual evolution with institutional safeguards built through centuries of struggle ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

The evolution of money is intricately tied to major developments in politics, science, and art, according to this insightful history. Economist McWilliams (The Pope’s Children) begins in ancient ...

We think of money these days as anything but tangible. Venmo accounts, credit and debit cards, ACH transfers—we don’t really touch “real” money anymore. And so we can’t appreciate its importance in ...

“Imagine money falling from the sky. Would you slip a tenner into your pocket before you told anyone? Chances are, most of us would trouser a few notes rather Read Full Article » ...

Exploring how money shapes life’s meaning from Dante to Marx to modern America’s cultural and moral challenges.