01450nam a22002057a 4500 OSt 20260507144937.0 260424b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781471195440 AACR-II 332.4 MCW McWilliams, David 18920 Money: a story of humanity London Simon & Schuster 2024 400 p. 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 HOLLAND Financial economics 18921 Finance and Economy Sector 18922 ddc B 0 0 ddc 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-04-24 1 332.4 MCW 185880 2026-06-05 2026-05-12 2026-04-24 B 360776 360776