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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

Edward Chancellor

Chancellor traces the history of interest and argues that artificially cheap money distorts saving, investment, and financial stability.

What stuck

  • Interest is one of the quiet organizing forces of civilization.
  • When money is made artificially cheap, behavior changes in ways policymakers rarely control.