Decades ago, my economics textbooks were acutely boring. Put off the soft science, I admit to never having read Niall Ferguson’s acclaimed The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, which has gathered dust on my bookshelf for 15 years.

But a new book, Money: A Story of Humanity by Irish academic and broadcaster David McWilliams, is a worthy parallel to, or an update of, Ferguson’s work.   ..

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