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A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller
The importance of money in our lives is readily apparent to everyone--rich, poor, and in between. However grudgingly, most of us accept the expression "Money makes the world go round" as a universal truth. We are all aware of the power of money--how it influences our moods, compels us to take risks, and serves as the yardstick of success in societies around the world. Yet because we take the daily reality of money so completely for granted, we seldom question how and why it has come to play such a central role in our lives.
In Coined: The Rich Life of Money And How Its History Has Shaped Us, author Kabir Sehgal casts aside our workaday assumptions about money and takes the reader on a global quest to uncover a deeper understanding of the relationship between money and humankind. More than a mere history of its subject, Coined probes the conceptual origins and evolution of money by examining it through the multiple lenses of disciplines as varied as biology, psychology, anthropology, and theology. Coined is not only a profoundly informative discussion of the concept of money, but it is also an endlessly fascinating and entertaining take on the nature of humanity and the inner workings of the mind.
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“Sehgal doesn’t just tell the story of how money is created and used; he tells the story of what money means to people as individuals and as a civilization. Narrator Kevin Stillwell takes those words and creates a listening experiences that is difficult to pause. He reads in an even tone, deftly navigating the scientific, historical, and financial terms. As the book examines the phenomenon of money from multiple disciplines, Stillwell’s conversational tone works well. While much of the reading recounts Sehgal’s expertise and findings, when required, Stillwell is up to the task of providing a variety of accents to set quotations apart from the main text.”
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“Kabir Sehgal has done us a great service in writing this book. He has presented in this book everything that money has meant to people over the centuries and with a multidimensional perspective. He has prepared the ground for us to take it forward, to give new meaning to money, to assign it new roles in our lives, and imagine the future of money as a foundation upon which we can build the future of the world we all cherish. Thank you, Kabir.”
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“The scope of information distilled is remarkable…[His] mission—to understand history and human beings by looking closely at their money. And you can’t argue with his conclusion: ‘Money is like blood,” he writes. ‘You need it to live, but it isn’t the point of life.’”
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“From the history of currency as a storage of surplus value to the future of it as digital legal tender, Sehgal investigates it all with best- and worst-case scenarios.”
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“[Sehgal] opens up the toolbox of his trade in this wide-ranging discussion of money and its instrumental function through human history…He worries that “money is becoming more electronic and invisible. It has become so abstract that we risk forgetting the concrete lessons of history…A lively account with an unconventional viewpoint.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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A New York Times bestseller
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller
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About Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal is an author and jazz enthusiast. His books have been featured on CNN, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. He is a jazz bassist and a producer of a Grammy-nominated album. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics.
About Kevin Stillwell
Kevin Stillwell is an actor, voice talent, and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. His film and television credits include Looper and Drop Dead Diva.