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Money by Yuval Noah Harari

zucher's review

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

dasunpubudumal's review

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4.0

A summarised version of Sapiens, Lessons for the 21st Century and Homo Deus.

namkhanh1386's review

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informative fast-paced

4.0

marinazala's review

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4.0

** Books 40 - 2019 **

This books to accomplish Tsundoku Books Challenge 2019

4 of 5 stars!

OMG! This books is so freaking lit! I haven't studied Macro economics by Gregory Mankiw as fun as this books! This books gives brief explanation about Money, Economics and also Capitalism. I just love how Yuval Noah Harari giving some historical fact to support his explanation. Seriously after this i am rethinking to buy another his works such as [b:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind|23692271|Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind|Yuval Noah Harari|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420585954s/23692271.jpg|18962767] and [b:Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow|31138556|Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow|Yuval Noah Harari|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1468760805s/31138556.jpg|45087110]!

It just a real coincidence that i just love the books that i bought yesterday in New Istanbul International Airport since yeah beside i have to finish my OWLsReadathon 2019 i wanna buy some light books reading in my long flight journey. I'm glad i choose this books!

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ensslen's review

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2.0

An indifferent discussion if currency ending with rampant fear mongering on a topic I doubt the author understands. Read anything else.

maiamountain's review

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5.0

I would recommend every book from this author.

sara_cornelia's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

Una lectura muy interesante, tenemos una explicación sobre el dinero y cómo comenzó a usarse, un poco de economía básica, capitalismo y hechos históricos que ayudan a entender y contextualizar, que fueron lo que más me gustó del libro, me pareció realmente interesante y una lectura que vale 100% la pena, además de que no es aburrida y no se siente como libro de la escuela.

La parte final del libro estuvo centrada en el liberalismo y las posibles amenazas que el mundo moderno y la tecnología presentan a esta forma de pensar.
 

"In exchange for such devoted counselling services, we will just have to give up the idea that humans are individuals, and that each human has a free will determining what's good, what's beautiful and what is the meaning of life."

En lo personal no estoy de acuerdo porque creo que el ser humano ama demasiado su humanidad, vivimos en un mundo antropocentrista y no creo que el ser humano vaya a permitir que un algoritmo le quite su importancia a pesar de que técnicamente el algoritmo pueda ser mejor. Amamos demasiado sentir que nuestra microscópica existencia es relevante y no creo que la humanidad este dispuesta a renunciar a eso. 

Pero el libro es muy bueno y vale 100% la pena, no le puse 4 estrellas porque sí puede llegar a ser un poquito pesado en momentos, o al menos para alguien que no está acostumbrado a leer este tipo de libros, pero en cuanto al contenido, me pareció excelente.

luzbella's review

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3.0

2/365 -2022

mahesha's review

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5.0

Precise, concise and interesting

al_villanueva's review

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informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

This book feels like an abridged version of Sapiens and Homo Deus. In a sense, you get a summary of Harari's thinking with the topic of money as starting point.

I really felt a clear divide between his remarks on the past and his predictions about the future. In 
my opinion, Harari applies the same logical devices to remarkably different time scales. This results in analysis that feel spot on about the past and way too generalist or simplified about the future.
To me the most enjoyable part was the comments on the intermingling between capitalism and politics. I wish he had followed that approach towards the latter part of the book, but I guess that is not as simple to do without access to privileged information about today's global affairs.