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THE ABC OF MONEY IBD

COSIMO CLASSICS
07 / 2018
9781944529352
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Sinopsis

It seems a simple question &mdash, what is money?&mdash, but the answer is more complicated than you&rsquo,d think. In 1891, America&rsquo,s greatest self-made man, steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, took on the subject in this essay. Here, he explains:&bull, the historical basis for money as a medium of exchange&bull, the difference between &ldquo,money&rdquo, and &ldquo,currency&rdquo,&bull, the trouble governments get into when they &ldquo,make money&rdquo,&bull, the problems that coming with backing currency with silver&bull, the &ldquo,good sense&rdquo, of the gold standard&bull, and more.The ABC of Money: Lessons from a Tycoonáoffers a highly readable discussion of a basic concept of economics.Also from Cosimo: Carnegie&rsquo,s Round the World, Triumphant Democracy, James Watt, An American Four-in-Hand in Britain, The Empire of Business, The Gospel of Wealth, and theáAutobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

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