TY - BOOK AU - Jackson, Gavin TI - Money in one lesson: how it works and why SN - 9781529051834 U1 - 332.4 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - Money KW - Inflation (Finance) KW - Digital currency KW - Finance, Personal N2 - "In Money in One Lesson, Gavin Jackson answers the most important questions to clarify for the reader what money is and how it shapes our societies. With brilliant storytelling, Jackson provides a basic understanding of the most important element of our everyday lives. Drawing on stories like the 1970s Irish Banking Strike to show what money actually is, and the Great Inflation of West Africa's cowrie shell money to explain how it keeps its value, Money in One Lesson demystifies the world of finance and explains how societies, both past and present, are forever entwined with monetary matters" -- ER -