Discusses how money is made and the different forms it takes, including information on goods, services, trade, and markets.

Take a walk through the neighborhood and enjoy a few treats-and learn about spending money and making change as you go.

Money Management Essentials For Dummies is your cheat sheet on becoming financially secure, now and into the future. Small and value-priced for the budget conscious, this book offers strategies for anyone to say goodbye to excess debt and prepare to achieve their goals. You'll discover the easy steps you can start taking today to get to a place of stability with your money. Create an emergency fund, manage outstanding debt, get good insurance, invest...

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to types of money. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"-- Provided by publisher.

"Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money-- investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal...

This teen financial guide emphasizes five essential money skills -- tracking, saving, spending, enjoying, and growing money -- to prepare readers for future financial challenges. Simmons presents complex financial topics, such as inflation, credit, interest, and cryptocurrency, in an accessible manner through conversations, guides, tables, and definitions. By focusing on these skills, "Making Bank" aims to reshape young readers' relationships with...

The world is drowning in cash--and it's making us poorer and less safe. In The Curse of Cash, Kenneth Rogoff, one of the world's leading economists, makes a persuasive and fascinating case for an idea that until recently would have seemed outlandish: getting rid of most paper money. Even as people in advanced economies are using less paper money, there is more cash in circulation--a record $1.4 trillion in U.S. dollars alone, or $4,200 for every American,...

A quarter describes all the ways it is used from the time it is minted until it is taken back to a bank.

"What is money anyway, and where and why did it originate? According to Jacob Goldstein, this made-up thing has evolved over centuries and takes different forms based on technological advances, the needs of society, and often the crazy ideas of outliers on the fringes. Told through witty, historical anecdotes, Goldstein demystifies this ever-evolving tool from the invention of the first coins in Mesopotamia, to how China invented paper money centuries...