Money - The Story Of Humanity
By David McWilliams

A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it'and PROFESSOR BRIAN COX Exceptional'and FINANCIAL TIMESand A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable'and PETER FRANKOPAN Equally entertaining and insightful'and YANIS VAROUFAKIS_______________________________________________________MONEY.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 aand 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?Moneyand 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._______________________________________________________ An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round'and EVENING STANDARD David McWilliams is the best explainer of economics I know'and SIMON KUPER'A tour de force of economic history'and GILLIAN TETT'Compelling, funny and original'and KATJA HOYER 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 TOM HOLLAND