Money : a story of humanity
McWilliams, David2024
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Money. The object of our desires. The engine of our genius. Humanity's greatest invention. Whether we like it or not, our world revolves around money, but we rarely stop to think about it. What is money, where does it come from, and can it run out? What is this substance that drives trade, revolutions and discoveries; inspires art, philosophy and science? In this illuminating, sometimes irreverent, and often surprising journey, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money - from a tally stick in ancient Africa to coins in Republican 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 and beyond.
Main title:
Money : a story of humanity / David McWilliams.
Author:
McWilliams, David, author
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
Collation:
xv, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781471195433 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
332.109332.1332.1 MAC332.1 MCW332.109 MACW
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2494387