Far from being what Keynes called that “barbarous relic,” gold has been important throughout history, and to the present day. Joakim Book reviews The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics & Power.
Joakim Book
Joakim Book is a writer and professional editor, and was the former managing editor for Bitcoin Magazine Print. He was the book editor for, among others, Lyn Alden’s Broken Money, Aaron van Wirdum’s The Genesis Book, and Nik Bhatia’s Bitcoin Age. He holds degrees in economics and financial history from the University of Glasgow and University of Oxford, and was a Mises summer fellow in 2017. His main research interests are monetary economics and the history of central banks, and he writes regularly on those topics for AIER’s The Daily Economy.
