Money in One Lesson
20 January 2022Imprint: Macmillan
Synopsis
You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does money actually work?
Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis, money has rarely been out of the headlines. Central banks have launched extraordinary policies, like quantitative...
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20 January 2022587 minutes
James Macnaughton
9781529051865Imprint: Macmillan
Reviews
Delightful and deep, Money in One Lesson is a superb account of the strange connections between money and economics.Tim 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 it.Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, the 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 life.Duncan Weldon, author of Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through
