Book description
How did our currency develop? Why is debt actually a good thing? What’s it like to be stinking rich or win the lottery? And who exactly is Elizabeth fry and why do we carry around her picture? These are some of the questions answered in this book.
We also investigate the institutions that manage our money – the Banl of England and the Treasury – and talk to the haves, the have nots and that growing breed the have yachts about why money makes the world go around. We also explore the New City, a very different place to the claret-swilling old boys’ network of the past, consider why men still earn more than women, take a look inside an Islamic bank and hear the potted histories of the moneymen whose contributions to finance have had a direct impact on the way we use money today.
