McWilliams, David,  1966- <br/><br/>
Money :  a story of humanity / 
David McWilliams ; foreword by Michael Lewis. 
 - London :  Simon & Schuster,  2024. 
 - xv, 400 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates :   illustrations (black and white and color), maps (black and white) ;   24 cm 
<br/><br/>Part 1: Ancient Money<br/>Money in the beginning<br/>By the Rivers of Babylon<br/>From contracts to coins<br/>Money and the Greek mind<br/>The empire of credit <br/>Part 2: Medieval Money<br/>Twilight of the feudal economy<br/>Saracen magic<br/>Darkness into night<br/>God’s printer <br/>Part 3: Revolutionary Money<br/>Invisible money<br/>The father of monetary economics<br/>The bishop of money<br/>Money and the American Republic <br/>Part 4: Modern Money<br/>Empiricism and the evolutionary economy<br/>Money on trial<br/>Yellow Brick Road<br/>Modernist money<br/>Into the abyss 
<br/><br/> Money: A Story of Humanity traces the history of money from its earliest origins in Mesopotamia to modern cryptocurrencies, showing how it has shaped human societies. McWilliams presents money not just as an economic tool, but as a social technology that enables trade, cooperation, and the building of complex civilizations.  For readers of SAPIENS and Yanis Varoufakis, the definitive story of money and how it shaped humankind from influential global economist David McWilliams. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781471195440 1471195449 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dinero--Historia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG 231  / M478m 2024