Synopsis
'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up
Money is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless. We can use it to build a home or send us to space, and it can lead to the rise and fall of empires. Few innovations have had such a huge...
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26 January 2023432 pages
9781529051858Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Delightful and deep, Money in One Lesson is a superb account of the strange connections between money and economicsTim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up
This is a highly illuminating, well-researched and beautifully written book on one of humanity’s most important innovations. People both love and hate money. But mostly, they fail to understand it. Such ignorance is not bliss. Happily, this book will go far to cure itMartin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times
A lucid exposition of a widely misunderstood topic, liberally illustrated with nuggets of intriguing informationJohn Kay, economist
Gavin Jackson has written that rarest of things: an intellectually rigorous and informative book on a technical subject that is also a pleasure to read. Anecdotes, stories and history bring money to lifeDuncan Weldon, author of Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through
