Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World
10 July - 34 minsPlanet Money Summer School is back for eight weeks. Join as we travel back in time to find the origins of our economic way of life. Today we ask surprisingly hard question: What is money? And where did it come from? We travel to a remote island in the Pacific Ocean for the answer. Then we'll visit France in the year 1714, where a man on the lam tries to revolutionize the country's entire monetary system, and comes impressively close to the modern economy we have today, before it all falls apart. Check out our Summer School video cheat sheet on the origins of money at the Planet Money TikTok.
The series is hosted by Robert Smith and produced by Audrey Dilling. Our project manager is Devin Me...
Series Episodes
Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more
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28 August Finished
Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy
35 mins
21 August Finished
