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'David Boyle is the finest radical voice of this generation' - Ed Mayo, Chief Executive, National Consumer Council
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Money Matters is an easy-to-understand guide that demystifies the economic
system that has us all caught in its tentacles, from hedge funds to
hyperinflation, credit cards to the credit crunch. Once you have read it, the
coins in your pocket and the minus signs on your bank statements will never
seem the same again.
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"We are all implicated, with our mortgages and pensions, in a bizarre system that operates ostensibly in our name" says David Boyle. "It is complicated, more than a little insane, and it functions in a dream world above people's ordinary lives - both useless and irrelevant to them and corrosive of them at the same time."
Money Matters sets out to explore how the money system works - what is money? How is it made? Who controls it? Why is there never enough to go around? It does so in simple terms, and is very readable. Each chapter is only a couple of pages, so you don't get bogged down in detail. There are little introductions to famous names such as Adam Smith or John Maynard Keynes. Lots of bullet points, and at the end of every chapter there's a book or website to look up if you want more information. It's the most accessible book on economics I've come across, by a considerably distance.
The book begins with the problems, from from tax havens to the monopoly of the `big four' accountancy firms, subsidies, or the fact that the "greedy 24 year olds" of the City make more money out of instability than stability. The later sections deal with the solutions, and this is where David Boyle really hits stride. Local money, community banking partnerships, swapping, time banking, co-ops, there are dozens of examples of good, practical, real-life alternatives.
If money confuses you, or if you know somehow that it isn't working but couldn't say why, this is the book for you.
Money Matters sets out to explore how the money system works - what is money? How is it made? Who controls it? Why is there never enough to go around? It does so in simple terms, and is very readable. Each chapter is only a couple of pages, so you don't get bogged down in detail. There are little introductions to famous names such as Adam Smith or John Maynard Keynes. Lots of bullet points, and at the end of every chapter there's a book or website to look up if you want more information. It's the most accessible book on economics I've come across, by a considerably distance.
The book begins with the problems, from from tax havens to the monopoly of the `big four' accountancy firms, subsidies, or the fact that the "greedy 24 year olds" of the City make more money out of instability than stability. The later sections deal with the solutions, and this is where David Boyle really hits stride. Local money, community banking partnerships, swapping, time banking, co-ops, there are dozens of examples of good, practical, real-life alternatives.
If money confuses you, or if you know somehow that it isn't working but couldn't say why, this is the book for you.
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The Liberals have lots of talent and some brilliant ideas, so let's hope a messy General Election in 2010 means that they get their hands on some of the levers of power. In which case there could be no greater mind to wrestle with the problems of the economy and come up with some refreshing alternative thinking than David Boyle.
Having read some of David Boyle's other books about money, this is a wonderfully succinct summary of all his thoughts. Like Montaigne, Boyle uses anecdotes to illustrate his points rather than statistics. The book is made up of 60 or 70 mini-essays on every aspect of finance and the economy. The ideas are challenging and thought-provoking - Gordon Brown and his gang made a mess of things, George Osborne is unlikely to turn the world on its head, so I think Boyle's ideas are sensible and worth trying.
As he says at he end, we're never going to overcome the greed and stupidity of the world, but he makes a very eloquent plea for us to choose 'life' before 'money'.
Having read some of David Boyle's other books about money, this is a wonderfully succinct summary of all his thoughts. Like Montaigne, Boyle uses anecdotes to illustrate his points rather than statistics. The book is made up of 60 or 70 mini-essays on every aspect of finance and the economy. The ideas are challenging and thought-provoking - Gordon Brown and his gang made a mess of things, George Osborne is unlikely to turn the world on its head, so I think Boyle's ideas are sensible and worth trying.
As he says at he end, we're never going to overcome the greed and stupidity of the world, but he makes a very eloquent plea for us to choose 'life' before 'money'.
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Money Matters shows that money doesn't exist and therefore shouldn't 'matter' but because we in the West believe that our banking system was handed down by god, that system is inviolate and has been left to dominate our every day existence to the detriment of mankind. This book in short concise chunks, blows the myths away and demonstrates workable, human size alternatives. Buy it and buy it for everyone you love - it's time for a small but inexorable revolution
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