03925cam a2200721 4500 2634878662 TxAuBib 20251205120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250408198 1250408199 B0DQJ7L715 Amazon bcca7fbe-b823-418b-a55c-a0e0d64af7f4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11424196 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McWilliams, David. The History of Money [Libby eBook] : A Story of Humanity. Henry Holt and Co., 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. david mcwilliams podcast. financial literacy. anthropology books. history of money. Personal Finance. economic history. Global Finance. cryptocurrency. World History. International. global crisis. michael lewis. kilkenomics. investing. Economics. inflation. politics. Business. Currency. Banking. Ireland. Finance. History. bitcoin. Credit. Stocks. Wealth. money. Bonds. irish. cash. Loan. debt. rich. HTML:"Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams's The History of Money is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now." —The New York Times In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley. The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed the direction of our planet's history so dramatically. And yet despite money's primacy, most of us don't truly understand it. As leading economist David McWilliams shows, money is central to every aspect of our civilization, from the political to the artistic. "Money defines the relationship between worker and employer, buyer and seller, merchant and producer. But not only that: it also defines the bond between the governed and the governor, the state and the citizen. Money unlocks pleasure, puts a price on desire, art and creativity. It motivates us to strive, achieve, invent and take risks. Money also brings out humanity's darker side, invoking greed, envy, hatred, violence and, of course, colonialism." In The History of Money, McWilliams takes us across the world, from the birthplace of money in ancient Babylon to the beginning of trade along the Silk Road, from Marrakech markets to Wall Street. Along the way, we meet a host of innovators, emperors, frauds, and speculators, who have disrupted society and transformed the way we live. Filled with memorable anecdotes, and with a foreword by Michael Lewis, The History of Money is an essential, extremely readable history of humanity's most consequential invention.. Nonfiction. Business. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-12-04 20:00:03. LEWIS, MICHAEL. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bcca7fbe-b823-418b-a55c-a0e0d64af7f4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bcca7fbe-b823-418b-a55c-a0e0d64af7f4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)