Kenneth S. Rogoff
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"Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016" "One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016" "Selected for Canada's Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016" "Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2016" Kenneth S. Rogoff, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and former...
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The world is drowning in cash and it's making us poorer and less safe. In The Curse of Cash, Kenneth S. Rogoff makes a persuasive and fascinating case for an idea that until recently would have seemed outlandish: getting rid of most paper money. Even as people in advanced economies are using less paper money, there is more cash in circulation, a record $1.4 trillion in U.S. dollars alone. So what is all that cash being used for? The answer is simple:...