The End of Alchemy: Banking, the Global Economy and the Future of Money Theatre Diamond surveys human history on

Diamond surveys human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas

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The End of Alchemy: Banking, the Global Economy and the Future of Money Theatre Diamond surveys human history onThe past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity. Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong. But those events, vivid though they