"Full of insights about the 21st century brought from carefully interpreting 17th century events, Easy Money is a fascinating mixture of American political, economic, and intellectual history that is sharply focused on how paper money was invented and implemented." 

Thomas Sargent, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

"... an engrossing narrative account ... the first booklength attempt to explain why a defining concept in our global financial system emerged within a desperate theocracy on the fringes of the British Empire."

"Estimable book."

The Wall Street Journal 

"... will become an instant classic. Lucid, arresting, and free of jargon, it is accessible to general readers and scholars."

"Summing Up: Essential. Undergraduates through faculty and general readers."

The Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association (Choice Reviews)

"There are many histories of seventeenth-century finance, colonialism, and governance, but few weave all three together as successfully as Easy Money does here. If the book merely referenced England’s seventeenth-century monetary experiments both at home and abroad, it would be worth reading for that reason alone. ... The discussion of British constraints and their effect on the final form of the bills is Easy Money’s most original and effective contribution. "

The William and Mary Quarterly 81(3), July 2024, 597-602

"... a major contribution to North Atlantic monetary history ... exceptionally well written ... very engaging for economic historians and at the same time accessible to a broad audience." 

Economic History Association (eh.net)

"Easy Money is a fascinating chapter of American financial history. Dror Goldberg masterfully translates difficult concepts into a readable narrative about the early Massachusetts colony. His work is proof that economics, law, and history belong together."

The Wharton School

"Most people find money fascinating. Long-ago episodes in the historical evolution of monetary arrangements can be a different matter. ... Dror Goldberg manages to make one such episode, more than three centuries in the past, not just interesting but important."

Benjamin M. Friedman, Harvard University