Everything is a story. Being both highly desirable and highly abstract, money has always attracted nefarious manipulators with great storytelling skills – as theatre maker Liam Rees explains. The book I mention in the intro is "Narrative economics" by Robert Shiller.
This episode is syndicated from a recent episode of the Library of Mistakes podcast, another culture of finance-themed series I am lucky to be involved with. Check it out.
I'm Leila Johnston. I live in Scotland and I write about business and finance for a living. The music on this podcast is called 'Just a Waltz' and is by Alena Smirnova.