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368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393069020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 04 April 2016
Description
Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? I...
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368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393069020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 04 April 2016
Description
Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? I...