TY - BOOK AU - Jenkins,Martin AU - Kitamura,Satoshi TI - The story of money: from bartering to bail-out SN - 9781406360875 (pbk.) : U1 - 332.4 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Walker Books and Subsidiaries KW - Money KW - History KW - Juvenile literature KW - Non-Fiction 9+ KW - ukslc KW - Work and Money N1 - Originally published: 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index; Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; MY; 6.4; 1; Quiz number: 227905 N2 - In the Yap Islands in the South Pacific it can be a stone with a hole in the middle. It can be a string of shells, a bundle of cloth or a copper slab. It's the stuff that makes the world go round. That doesn't grow on trees. That can't buy you love, apparently. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Martin Jenkins explores the history of money from its earliest beginnings to the electronic banking of today. Along the way we learn about hunter gatherers, barter, clay tablets, goat swapping, precious metals, hard bargains, IOUs, interest, coins, Romans, taxes, inflation, paper money, currencies and exchange rates ER -