{"product_id":"9781471195433-money","title":"Money","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Story of Humanity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of SAPIENS and Yanis Varoufakis, the definitive story of money and how it shaped humankind from influential global economist David McWilliams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003cbr\u003e AN \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003cbr\u003e A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ \u003cb\u003ePROFESSOR BRIAN COX\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Exceptional’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ \u003cb\u003ePETER FRANKOPAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ \u003cb\u003eYANIS VAROUFAKIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e _______________________________________________________ \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMONEY.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe object of our desires.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe engine of our genius.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumanity’s greatest invention.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMoney\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e _______________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘An impressive journey that fizzes with facts’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘David McWilliams is the best explainer of economics I know’\u003cb\u003e SIMON KUPER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Compelling, funny and original’\u003cb\u003e KATJA HOYER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘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’ \u003cb\u003eTOM HOLLAND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41602638708833,"sku":"9781471195433","price":29.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31839302.jpg?v=1735031373","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471195433-money","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}