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Volume 42 – Money, Trade & the Accidents of Business

Thirty genuinely true, cross-checked facts about money, trade and the sheer accident of how business got here — spanning Companies That Began as Something Else, Accidental Inventions, The Origins of Finance, Trade & Empire, Words of Money, Bubbles & Manias, Standards & Systems and Indian Economic History. Inside: why Nokia started as a paper mill…

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