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Economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humanity and money with expertise, insight and humour. From a Stone Age tally stick to the micro-financing scheme revolutionising the developing world, ‘Money’ explores how we have shaped, and been shaped by, money.

Today, he considers the recent history of money as well as its possible future – from a run on the punt to the rise of M-PESA.

Read by the author
Abridged by Rosemary Goring
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie

David McWilliams is an economist, author, podcaster, journalist, documentarian and broadcaster. He is the founder of Kilkenomics, the world’s only economics and stand-up comedy festival. ‘Davos with jokes’ takes place in November in Kilkenny.