The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/41243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Price of Time Author: Edward Chancellor Narrator: Luis Soto Format: mp3 Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins Release date: 07-07-22 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 30 ratings Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law's ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century. We generally assume that high interest rates are harmful, but Chancellor argues that, whenever money is too easy, financial markets become unstable. He takes the story to the present day, when interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded.