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AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF
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PROSPECT ‘A breathtaking expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of
money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX ‘Exceptional’ FINANCIAL
TIMES ‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN
‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS
_______________________________________________________ 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?
_______________________________________________________ ‘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
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