Money av David McWilliams

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'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, and who, in this brilliantly informative and entertaining book, has done his subject splendid justice' <BR/><B>TOM HOLLAND</B><BR/><BR/>'Equally entertaining and insightful'<BR/><B>YANIS VAROUFAKIS</B><BR/><BR/><B><I>MONEY.</I></B><BR/><B><I>The object of our desires.</I></B><BR/><B><I>The engine of our genius.</I></B><BR/><B><I>Humanity’s greatest invention.</I></B><BR/><BR/> 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?<BR/><BR/> In this illuminating, sometimes irreverent, and often surprising journey, economist David McWilliams charts the relation