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You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how
does it 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 easing or negative
interest rates. New means of payment, like Bitcoin and Apple Pay,
are changing how we interact with money and how governments and
corporations keep track of our spending. Radical politicians in the
US and UK are urging us to transform our financial system and make
it the servant of social justice. And yet, if you stopped for a
moment and asked yourself whether you really understand how it
works, would you honestly be able to say 'yes'? In Money in One
Lesson, Gavin Jackson, a lead writer for the Financial Times,
specialising in economics, business and public policy, answers the
most important questions to clarify for the reader what money is
and how it shapes our societies. With brilliant storytelling,
Jackson provides a basic understanding of the most important
element of our everyday lives. Drawing on stories like the 1970s
Irish Banking Strike to show what money actually is, and the Great
Inflation of West Africa's cowrie shell money to explain how it
keeps its value, Money in One Lesson demystifies the world of
finance and explains how societies, both past and present, are
forever entwined with monetary matters.
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 easing or negative
interest rates. New means of payment, like Bitcoin and Apple Pay,
are changing how we interact with money and how governments and
corporations keep track of our spending. Radical politicians in the
US and UK are urging us to transform our financial system and make
it the servant of social justice. And yet, if you stopped for a
moment and asked yourself whether you really understand how it
works, would you honestly be able to say 'yes'? In Money in One
Lesson, Gavin Jackson, a lead writer for the Financial Times,
specialising in economics, business and public policy, answers the
most important questions to clarify for the reader what money is
and how it shapes our societies. With brilliant storytelling,
Jackson provides a basic understanding of the most important
element of our everyday lives. Drawing on stories like the 1970s
Irish Banking Strike to show what money actually is, and the Great
Inflation of West Africa's cowrie shell money to explain how it
keeps its value, Money in One Lesson demystifies the world of
finance and explains how societies, both past and present, are
forever entwined with monetary matters.
'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 impact on the development of
humanity, but money is a shared fiction; a story we believe in so
long as others act as if it is true. Money is rarely out of the
headlines - from the invention of cryptocurrencies to the problem
of high inflation, extraordinary interventions by central banks and
the power the West has over the worldwide banking system. In Money
in One Lesson, Gavin Jackson answers the most important questions
on what money is and how it shapes our world, drawing on vivid
examples from throughout history to demystify and show how
societies and its citizens, both past and present, are always
entwined with matters of money. 'A highly illuminating,
well-researched and beautifully written book on one of humanity's
most important innovations' - Martin Wolf, chief economics
commentator, Financial Times
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