Culture, humanities & social science
Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made The World Rich
By Thomas Levenson, professor of the practice in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing and director of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing
Random House · 2020
Advances of the Scientific Revolution created newly abstract ideas about money, transforming it from something material - discs of precious metal - to a mathematical notion of money, shares, or bonds, or insurance that could evolve over time. Levenson shows how we are still vulnerable to the same risks that brought down Britain's first experiments with financial invention.
From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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