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Money: A Story of Humanity

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‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX

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‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN

‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS
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MONEY.
The object of our desires.
The engine of our genius.
Humanity’s greatest invention.

Money is everything. It brings freedom and it takes it away. It inspires and corrupts us. But what is money? Is it the main thing holding us back from utopia or ... Read more

In his illuminating, entertaining and often surprising book, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money – from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to coins in Ancient Greece, from mathematics in the medieval Arab world to the French Revolution, and from the emergence of the US dollar right up to today’s cryptocurrency. Along the way, we meet a host of characters who have innovated with money, disrupting society and transforming the way we live. Like humanity, money is ever changing, adapting to its time and circumstances. The question is, over the last 5000 years, have we changed money or has money changed us?

Money tells an astonishing new story of our species. Taking the reader on an epic journey through the history of money, McWilliams reveals its fundamental role in our society.
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‘An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round’ EVENING STANDARD

‘David McWilliams is the best explainer of economics I know’ SIMON KUPER

'A tour de force of economic history' GILLIAN TETT

'Compelling, funny and original' KATJA HOYER

‘If, as David McWilliams complains, economists take the fun out of money, then he is the exception that proves the rule: a man who could not write a boring sentence if he tried’ TOM HOLLAND Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Simon & Schuster London
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471195440
SKU
9781471195440
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99-18

About David McWilliams
David McWilliams is a global economist, writer and broadcaster whose unique ability to communicate complex societal and economic structures is unparalleled. Having worked at the Central Bank of Ireland, he became a faculty member at Trinity College, Dublin business school. He's been described as being to economics what David Attenborough is to the natural sciences and Brian Cox is to ... Read more

Reviews for Money: A Story of Humanity
‘A hugely ambitious, insightful and readable account of our relationship with money'
Felix Martin
Financial Times
‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’  
Peter Frankopan, author of 'The Silk Roads' 'If, as David McWilliams complains, economists take the fun out of money, then he is the exception that proves ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Money: A Story of Humanity


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