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Readable entry points for people who were taught how to earn dollars, but not what dollars are.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Why behavior beats spreadsheets.
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
Money as civilization's operating system.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
Debt before money, and why that matters.
Basic Economics
Thomas Sowell
Prices, scarcity, incentives, plain English.
Markets and money for the internet age.
Broken Money
The Bitcoin Standard
The Price of Tomorrow
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
The New Case for Gold
The Lords of Easy Money
The Creature from Jekyll Island
A Monetary History of the United States
1929
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
The Big Short
Too Big to Fail
Devil Take the Hindmost
Going Infinite
Equity Stripped