Money is a tool that we utilize every day, yet we don’t fully understand it. In Richard Davies’ New York Times article, “The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round,” he asserts money is a confidence trick “an i.o.u. printed on cheap material that promises the holder nothing but more paper money.” Davies’ article, which is a book review of Jacob Goldstein’s Money: The True Story of a Made Up Thing, discusses the theme that money is “a made-up thing, a shared fiction,” and the idea that “money is fundamentally, unalterably social.”