La RAE recoge en su primera acepción que el dinero (proveniente del latín denarius) es la moneda corriente. Sin embargo, el concepto de dinero es mucho más amplio y en este sentido me gustaría traer aquí 10 extractos de la visión que ofrece Yuval Noah Harari sobre el mismo en su libro  Sapiens.

1. Money`s development required no technological breakthroughs. It was a purely mental revolution.
2. Money is anything that people are willing to use in order to represent systematically the value of other things for the purpose of exchanging goods and services.
3. Money is a universal medium of exchange that enables people to convert almost everything into almost anything else.
4. Ideal types of money enable people not merely to turn one thing into another, but to store wealth as well.
5. Because money can convert, store and transport wealth easily and cheaply, it made a vital contribution to the appearance of complex commercial networks and dinamic markets.
6. Money have value only in our common imagination. It is a psychological construct.
7. Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
8. Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money ask us to believe that other people believe in something.
9. Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits.
10. Money is based on two universal principles: (i) Universal convertibility and (ii) Universal trust

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