Cover art for The Monkey and the Money
Published
Stolpe Publishing, August 2024
ISBN
9789189425712
Format
Hardcover, 192 pages
Dimensions
22cm × 17cm

The Monkey and the Money A history of capitalism

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At some point around two million years ago, we discovered that we could exchange one thing for another. Since then, humans have continued trading and exchanging things throughout economic history. Clever humans also invented capital, which we used to shape our whole economic system.

In this information-packed, entertaining, eye-opening book, Kjell A. Nordstroem guides us from the collaborative origins of prehistoric bartering to Adam Smith's concept of specialisation. He shows how we have used our endless inventiveness to transform our planet into a colossal, pulsating bazaar, where everyone is trading with one another all over the world, around the clock.

How did we end up here? And what does the future hold for our immense, complex global economy that has now started to appear vulnerable?

Dr Nordstroem provides hope that we will find new ways to continue our endless trading and exchanging. New ways that involve and take into account nature, our other vital source of capital: not created by us, but crucial to our well-being.

With The Monkey and the Money Kjell A. Nordstroem aims to demystify economics and money. By providing insight into human ingenuity and perspectives based on that ingenuity, Nordstroem helps us to understand and marvel at the vast, clever system that we call the economy.

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