Money, A Story of Humanity
- Jan 15
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 16
a PACIFIC READS selection
By: David McWilliams
Category: Nonfiction
Published: 2024
Recommended by:
Phil Ruder, Professor of Economics, author of studies on literacy-based learning in economics and recipient of the Trombley Award for Teaching Excellence.
As an economist, I read a lot of non-fiction in my professional life. Most non-fiction takes a really interesting topic and turns it into a really dull read. I am always on the lookout for the rare nonfiction book that engages its reader the way a good novel does. Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams is such a book. McWilliams tells a riveting story about money, which for millennia has enabled humans to cooperate by specializing in what they are good at. The gains from mutually beneficial trade have made our scrawny but innovative species fabulously wealthy, and reading Money can help us understand why – even while we enjoy a really good story.
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