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Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

Maybe someday

49

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

46/100

Critics

53/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Thomas Levenson

Publisher:

Random House

Date:

August 18, 2020

The story of how the greatest minds of the Scientific Revolution applied their new ideas to people, money, and markets—and along the way, invented modern finance.

What The Reviewers Say

James Grant,
The Wall Street Journal
... vivid.
Jennifer Michaelson,
Booklist
... [a] detailed historical account that connects seemingly unrelated developments.

Kirkus
The story of government debt finance, which sounds boring but definitely isn’t.