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020			_a9781471195440
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100			_aMcWilliams, David
245			_aMoney : a story of humanity
260			_bSimon & Schuster, _c2025. _aLondon :
300			_axv, 399 p. ; _b16 unnumbered pages of plates : iil., (chiefly colour), _c23 cm
365			_b799.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aMoney. 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 is it the one constant that's driven us to success? 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 changing 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.
650			_aFinancial management
650			_aMoney History
650			_aMoney Social aspects
650			_aMoney Psychological aspects
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