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Books that pay off — Harvard Gazette

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The power of money is lost on no one but still a universal source of frustration, folly, and confusion — at kitchen tables, in boardrooms, among voters and the leaders who want their votes. To help make sense of dollars and cents, we asked three Harvard economists to recommend some favorite books on the subject. Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School/Department of Economics “Money” Jacob Goldstein “An entertaining history of what money is — and what aspired to be money but turned out not to be, often at a great loss to those who bet on it.” “The Future of Money” Eswar S. Prasad “The most reliable economic account of cryptocurrencies, providing a particularly balanced account of the pros and cons of central banks’ developing digital currencies to replace or complement traditional money.” “Money Mischief” Milton Friedman “The leading postwar proponent of monetarism wrote scholarly books about money that were more important but probably not more enterta

Books that pay off — Harvard Gazette The power of money is lost on no one but still a universal source of frustration, folly, and confusion — at kitchen tables, in boardrooms, among voters and the leaders who want their votes. To help make sense of dollars and cents, we asked three Harvard economists to recommend some favorite books on the subject. Harvard file photo Jason Furman Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School/Department of Economics “Money” Jacob Goldstein “An entertaining history of what money is — and what aspired to be money but turned out

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