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?'
Katja Senner wurde am 09. April 1972 in Mainz geboren und studierte nach ihrer Ausbildung im Druckwesen an der FH Mainz Kommunikationsdesign und Buchillustration. Als Illustratorin hat sie zwei Lieben vereint, die Freude an schönen Büchern und die Leidenschaft zu zeichnen. Sie arbeitet vor allem für die ganz Kleinen und versucht sie in ihren speziellen Ansprüchen an ein Buch ernst zu nehmen. Über ihre Arbeit sagt sie: "Ich denke, ich habe großes Glück einen Beruf zu haben, der mir viel Spaß macht. Und ich freue mich, wenn die Kleinen und Großen meine Bilder mögen."
