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SUMMARY:Money: the unauthorised biography - Dr Felix Martin\, Institute fo
 r New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies 
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:'What is money\, and how does it work? The conventional answer
  is that people once used sugar in the West Indies\, tobacco in Virginia\,
  and dried cod in Newfoundland\, and that today’s financial universe evo
 lved from barter. Unfortunately\, there is a problem with this story. It
 ’s wrong. And not just wrong\, but dangerous. 'Money: the unauthorised b
 iography' unfolds a panoramic secret history and explains the truth about 
 money: what it is\, where it comes from\, and how it works. Drawing on sto
 ries from throughout human history and around the globe\, 'Money' will rad
 ically rearrange your understanding of the world and shows how money can o
 nce again become the most powerful force for freedom we have ever known'\n
 \nFelix Martin is a macroeconomist and fund manager.  He was educated in t
 he UK\, Italy\, and the US\, where he was a Fulbright scholar\; and has de
 grees in classics\, international relations\, and economics.  Between 1998
  and 2008\, Felix worked at the World Bank\, mostly on the reconstruction 
 of the former Yugoslavia\, and helped establish the European Stability Ini
 tiative think tank.  Since 2008 he has worked in the fund management indus
 try in London\, first at Thames River Capital – now part of BMO Global A
 sset Management\; then at Liontrust Asset Management\; and most recently a
 s one of the founding partners of 1167 Capital.\n
LOCATION:Darwin College (Seminar Room\, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance v
 ia Porters Lodge on Silver St)
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