What if Money Grew on Trees?: Asking the Big Questions about Economics

Business & Finance, Economics, Theory of Economics
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Author: Neva Goodwin, David Boyle ISBN: 9781782401179
Publisher: The Ivy Press Publication: September 2, 2013
Imprint: Ivy Press Language: English
Author: Neva Goodwin, David Boyle
ISBN: 9781782401179
Publisher: The Ivy Press
Publication: September 2, 2013
Imprint: Ivy Press
Language: English

Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book.Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book.

In between these speculations, there are also seven historical ‘what ifs’, which examine the consequences of real-life economic experiments, such as ‘What if we abolish slavery?’ and ‘What if we just keep printing banknotes?’.

You need to speculate to accumulate. With its informative and thought-provoking speculations, ‘What If Money Grew on Trees?’ will help you to accumulate the knowledge you need to understand the way the financial world works today, and to consider the shape it might take in the future.

Also available in the series ‘What If Einstein Was Wrong?’

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Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book.Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book.

In between these speculations, there are also seven historical ‘what ifs’, which examine the consequences of real-life economic experiments, such as ‘What if we abolish slavery?’ and ‘What if we just keep printing banknotes?’.

You need to speculate to accumulate. With its informative and thought-provoking speculations, ‘What If Money Grew on Trees?’ will help you to accumulate the knowledge you need to understand the way the financial world works today, and to consider the shape it might take in the future.

Also available in the series ‘What If Einstein Was Wrong?’

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