Money in One Lesson: And Why It Doesn't Work the Way We Think It Does by Gavin Jackson (Paperback)

Money in One Lesson is economics journalist Gavin Jackson's accessible introduction to how money really works. His starting point is that money is a shared fiction: it has value only because everyone behaves as if it does. From there he explains why the economy so often fails to do what we expect, in a book suited to curious general readers rather than specialists.

• Explains money as a collective agreement rather than a thing with value of its own
• Uses stories from history to show how money has shaped empires, societies and ordinary lives
• Covers current debates on cryptocurrencies, high inflation and the actions of central banks
• Examines the West's hold over the global banking system

Details

• Author: Gavin Jackson
• Publisher: Pan Books (Pan Macmillan)
• Published: January 2023
• Format: Paperback, 320 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781529051858