Maimuța și banii

Maimuta si banii traces how trade grew into a world economy. It opens millions of years ago with two imagined monkeys. Both gain when they swap things. This shows the book’s core idea. Trade helps people meet their needs when supplies are scarce. In time, it shapes human life and history. It also leads to the study of economics.

This history of capitalism looks at money and firms. It also looks at the drive for a better life. It views these as tools to meet human needs. They are not evils in their own right. Yet how did that drive come to threaten people and the planet? The book asks this and weighs the world economy’s future. That economy is vast but frail.

The book seeks ways to keep trade alive and respect nature. Its hopeful view treats nature as capital. Humans did not make it, but they still need it. Radu Hanganut translated this edition from English.