Economics expert Stewart Cowley distils the complexities of modern-day
money and our relationship with it, explaining how you can use economics
to your advantage and that understanding economics can improve your
life.
Along the way you will discover how the statistics that govern our world
are based on guesswork, why stock markets are like a wandering drunken
man, what you need to live like a millionaire, and why cooking has made
man the dominant species on the planet.
Where is all the money? How does a country go bust? Should I get paid in
Bitcoin? Wherever you go, whatever you do, however you live your life,
money plays a role. Getting it, keeping it, and making more out of it
has been one of man's major preoccupations for the past five thousand
years. From buying a sandwich to earning a wage, going on holiday to
playing the lottery, how money and economics governs our world is
fascinating. And it's just about to get more curious; the arrival of
modern banking, crowd funding, investments at the touch of a smartphone,
and virtual currencies means, for many of us, it is even more complex.