Departing from this amusing yet entirely real vignette, it is worth considering several outstanding and insightful books that thoughtfully engage with various dimensions of this fascinating subject matter:

Billig, M. (1995). Banal nationalism. Sage.

Bloch, M., & Parry, J. (Eds.). (1989). Money and the morality of exchange. Cambridge University Press.

Desan, C. (2014). Making money: Coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism. Oxford University Press.

Dodd, N. (2014). The social life of money. Princeton University Press.

Donovan, K. P. (2024). Money, value, and the state: Sovereignty and citizenship in East Africa. Cambridge University Press.

Eich, S. (2022). The currency of politics: The political theory of money from Aristotle to Keynes. Princeton University Press.

Ingham, G. (2004). The nature of money. Polity

Helleiner, E. (2003). The making of national money: Territorial currencies in historical perspective. Cornell University Press.

Slater, D. (1997). Consumer culture and modernity. Polity Press

Suesse, M. (2023). The nationalist dilemma: A global history of economic nationalism, 1776–present. Cambridge University Press.

Yuran, N. (2014). What ‪Money‬ Wants: An ‪Economy‬ of Desire. Stanford University Press

Zatlin, J. R. (2007). The currency of socialism: Money and political culture in East Germany. Cambridge University Press.

Zelizer, V. A. (1997). The social meaning of money: Pin money, paychecks, poor relief, and other currencies. Princeton University Press.

Zubrzycki, G. (Ed.). (2017). National matters: Materiality, culture, and nationalism. Stanford University Press.

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