According to a book review from the New York Times Magazine called, “The Fiction That Makes The World Go Around,” discusses the concept of money being a piece of paper that is printed out on “cheap material,” is a counterintuitive perspective expressed by Richard Davies reactions to Jacob Goldstein book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. According to the book reviewer from The New York Times Magazine Goldstein’s ideas can be described as,” astonishing tales” which prove that he clearly has a different perspective on money.