The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
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"Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s The History of Money is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now."
—The New York Times
In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.
The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed the direction of o...






















