Money. A Story of Humanity

Name: Money
Price: 24.3 EUR
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Author: David McWilliams
ISBN: 978-1-4711-9544-0

Par : David McWilliams

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Nombre de pages400
FormatGrand Format
PrésentationBroché

Poids0.485 kg
Dimensions15,3 cm × 23,4 cm × 2,6 cm
ISBN978-1-4711-9544-0
EAN9781471195440
Date de parution12/09/2024
ÉditeurSimon & Schuster
PréfacierMichael Lewis

Résumé

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 is it the one constant that's driven us to success ? In this epic journey, 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 5,000 years, have we changed money or has money changed us ?

A propos de David McWilliams

David McWillia is an economist, author and broadcaster with a unique ability to make economics comprehensible. He writes a weekly column for the Irish Times, hosts The David McWilliams Podcast, a bi-weekly economics podcast, and is co-founder of the Dalkey Book Festival as well as the world's only economics and stand-up comedy festival, Kilkenomics. An adjunct professor of global economics at Trinity College Dublin, in a previous life, he had a few real jobs - his career as a monetary economist began at the Irish Central Bank, before he moved to UBS and Banque Nationale de Paris.

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