Economics expert Stewart Cowley distils the complexities of modern-day money & our relationship with it explaining how you can use economics to your advantage & that understanding economics can improve your life Along the way you will discover how the statistics that govern our world are based on guesswork why stock markets are like a wandering drunken man what you need to live like a millionaire & why cooking has made man the dominant species on the planet Where is all the money? How does a country go bust? Should I get paid in Bitcoin? Wherever you go whatever you do however you live your life money plays a role Getting it keeping it & making more out of it has been one of man's major preoccupations for the past five thousand years From buying a sandwich to earning a wage going on holiday to playing the lottery how money & economics governs our world is fascinating & it's just about to get more curious; the arrival of modern banking crowd funding investments at the touch of a smartphone & virtual currencies means for many of us it is even more complex