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A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES AND PROSPECT

‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX

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​‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN

‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS
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MONEY.
The object of our desires.
The engine of our genius.
Humanity’s greatest invention.
From clay tablets in Mesopotamia to today’s cryptocurrency, global economist David McWilliams takes us on an epic journey of innovation, disruption and transformation that is an astonishing new history of our species.
The question is, over 5,000 years, have we changed money – or has money changed us?
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‘A fun history of money told through the stories of the chancers, cheats, scoundrels and geniuses who made it happen’ KATIE MARTIN
‘An impressive journey that fizzes with facts’ ECONOMIST

‘An eye-opening history of what makes the world go round’ EVENING STANDARD

‘Compelling, funny and original’ 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’ TOM HOLLAND©2024 David McWilliams (P)2024 Simon & Schuster, UK Economic History Economics World
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I found the overall story interesting and enjoyed the historical timeline. The author brought forward a new perspective on the evolution of money. I found the end frustrating and thought the author could have done more to demonstrate he understood crypto and why bitcoin in particular has gotten to where it is.
His claims that the Kenyian phone company have developed a payment network superior to Bitcoin is quite absurd, Bitcoin is a $2 trillion dollar global network. The problem it’s solving is global debasement of fiat currency, it’s allowing people all over the world to protect their purchasing power all be it in a volatile asset class..
I’m unsure why David so dogmatically believes money should be managed by the government and why a decentralised global network isn’t superior. Beyond the corruption of so many of the earlier characters in the book.

Good book. Does David understand Bitcoin? I’m not sure.

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David McWilliam will leave you feeling well informed and cynical. Human nature's hard like behaviour with finance is explained thru the long view of history.

Pulling back the veil from filthy luekers history.

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The most comprehensive, insightful straightforward and uncomplicated history of the evolution of money and its impact on our world that I have ever read or listened to. A must for the library

Very insightful

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I was genuinely surprised by how good this books is! It’s everything I hoped it to be and more.

Extremely insightful

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