<ul> <li> Money is both a human universal and yet incredibly diverse not one thing but many</li> <li> The book combines ethnography history sociology and heterodox economics from multiple theoretical angles</li> <li> A human economy approach links people and their societies to the world; solutions to our main problems must be based on knowing what people do think and want</li> <li> Although nationalism and globalization are often opposed today the local is global and vice versa while money and markets serve human purposes in ways that are normally hidden.</li></ul>