Making Money (2007)
Making Money is a 2007 postal service book written by Terry Pratchett.
Moist von Lipwig has done the impossible: the Ankh-Morpork Post Office now runs on time. So Lord Vetinari, who dislikes idle talent, hands him a fresh assignment, the Royal Mint, where it somehow costs more than a penny to make a penny. From there it is a short step to the ailing Royal Bank, a suspicious will, a very small inherited chairman, and the strange question of what money actually is once nobody quite believes the gold is still down in the vault. Pratchett puts a reformed con man in charge of the currency and lets him discover that finance is mostly confidence, performed well.
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What is Making Money about?
Moist von Lipwig has done the impossible: the Ankh-Morpork Post Office now runs on time. So Lord Vetinari, who dislikes idle talent, hands him a fresh assignment, the Royal Mint, where it somehow costs more than a penny to make a penny. From there it is a short step to the ailing Royal Bank, a suspicious will, a very small inherited chairman, and the strange question of what money actually is once nobody quite believes the gold is still down in the vault. Pratchett puts a reformed con man in charge of the currency and lets him discover that finance is mostly confidence, performed well.
When was Making Money published?
Making Money was published in 2007.
Who made Making Money?
Making Money was written by Terry Pratchett.
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Moist runs on charm and nerve, which makes Catch Me If You Can the obvious companion: Frank Abagnale forges his way through banks with the same delighted improvisation. Hustle, the con-artist series, shares his taste for the long game and the elegant swindle. Both understand the real joke here, that money and trust are the same performance, and the performer always knows it.
Confidence games that reshape what everyone believes is real
Moist von Lipwig learns the Royal Bank's gold barely matters, since the whole system runs on people agreeing to believe in it, and Making Money turns that into his best trick yet. These share that same performance: professional grifters running a long con as a team, a forger staying ahead of everyone chasing him, and a spy whose entire life is a constructed persona.