Book Log 2022 #8: Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

Goldstein, the co-host of NPR's Planet Money, has as a core belief that money is innately social, that it exists because all of us, collectively, agree that money has value. He examines that view through a historical lens in this book, which uses a number of anecdotes to show how the development of monetary systems and types of currency shaped countries and civilizations. 

It's a good book for people who could use a layman's explanation on how money works and the ways in which it can cause and solve problems (the discussion of the Great Depression gives a clearer understanding of how the Federal Reserve helped spur it on and how FDR taking us off the gold standard helped to end it).