{"product_id":"broken-money","title":"Broken Money","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)\"\u003eA Comprehensive Overview of the Past, Present, and Future of Money\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)\"\u003eBroken Money\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)\"\u003e explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently. The book's goal is for the reader to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical foundations and in terms of practical implications.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom shells to gold, from papyrus bills of exchange to central banks, and from the invention of the telegraph to the creation of Bitcoin, Lyn Alden walks the reader through the emergence of new technologies that have shaped what we use as money over the ages. And beyond that, Alden explores the concept of what money is at its very foundation to give the reader a framework to analyze and compare different types of monetary technologies and monetary theories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also takes a distinctively \u003cem style=\"color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)\"\u003ehuman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)\"\u003e look at how money impacts the lives of real people, and how new monetary technologies shape the power structures within society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the modern era, energy abundance and technological enhancements have broadly improved human well-being, but the global monetary system has been slow to keep up. There are over 160 active currencies in the world, each with a local monopoly over its own country, and with little or no acceptance elsewhere. Many of them are rapidly diluted, which continually devalues the savings and the wages of the billions of people who live and work within those jurisdictions. Being born in the \"wrong\" country makes saving money far harder than it needs to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNigeria has a population o\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timestamp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67661174374767,"sku":"9798988666318","price":159.65,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/9798988666318.jpg?v=1791114127","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/broken-money","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}