Download or read book Making Money written by Christine Desan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist history of the development of the modern monetary system, Christine Desan argues that money effectively creates economic activity rather than emerging from it. Her account demonstrates that money's design has been a project central to governance and formative to markets.