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    What if Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions about Physics
    What if Money Grew on Trees?: Asking the Big Questions about Economics
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    What If? Series

    By Neva Goodwin and Jim Al-Khalili

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    About this series

    ‘What if...?’ are the two words that sow the seeds for human speculation, experimentation, invention, evolution, revolution, revision and change. Consider the consequences of travelling back to the future or exploring the past. What if we dug a black hole or built a warp drive? How far away is science fiction from science fact? Explore aspects of physics that today seem as strange as when they first fooled great thinkers of the past or that remain speculative today.

    What If Einstein Was Wrong? gathers together a team of scientific scholars to consider 50 key questions and their consequences, along with 7 historic speculations and their significance. In so doing, it offers you a new way to build up your understanding of the most topical science.

    To speculate is to accumulate. To read a ‘What If...?’ is to accumulate the knowledge you need to debate the shape that our universe and world will take in the future.

    Also available in the series ‘What if Money Grew on Trees?’

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIlex Press
    Release dateSep 2, 2013
    What if Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions about Physics
    What if Money Grew on Trees?: Asking the Big Questions about Economics

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      What if Money Grew on Trees?: Asking the Big Questions about Economics
      What if Money Grew on Trees?: Asking the Big Questions about Economics

      What if Money Grew on Trees?: Asking the Big Questions about Economics

      Neva Goodwin
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      Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book.Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book. In between these speculations, there are also seven historical ‘what ifs’, which examine the consequences of real-life economic experiments, such as ‘What if we abolish slavery?’ and ‘What if we just keep printing banknotes?’. You need to speculate to accumulate. With its informative and thought-provoking speculations, ‘What If Money Grew on Trees?’ will help you to accumulate the knowledge you need to understand the way the financial world works today, and to consider the shape it might take in the future. Also available in the series ‘What If Einstein Was Wrong?’

      Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book.Consider a world where gold is worthless, everybody earns the same amount, banks do not exist and international trade is banned. Would our lives be better if all work was fun, debt was wiped out and anybody could live wherever they wanted? What would happen if we banned adverts, stopped shopping and rationed carbon? All these ideas and more are analysed and debated in this timely new book. In between these speculations, there are also seven historical ‘what ifs’, which examine the consequences of real-life economic experiments, such as ‘What if we abolish slavery?’ and ‘What if we just keep printing banknotes?’. You need to speculate to accumulate. With its informative and thought-provoking speculations, ‘What If Money Grew on Trees?’ will help you to accumulate the knowledge you need to understand the way the financial world works today, and to consider the shape it might take in the future. Also available in the series ‘What If Einstein Was Wrong?’

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      What if Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions about Physics
      What if Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions about Physics

      What if Einstein Was Wrong?: Asking the Big Questions about Physics

      Jim Al-Khalili
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      ‘What if...?’ are the two words that sow the seeds for human speculation, experimentation, invention, evolution, revolution, revision and change. Consider the consequences of travelling back to the future or exploring the past. What if we dug a black hole or built a warp drive? How far away is science fiction from science fact? Explore aspects of physics that today seem as strange as when they first fooled great thinkers of the past or that remain speculative today. What If Einstein Was Wrong? gathers together a team of scientific scholars to consider 50 key questions and their consequences, along with 7 historic speculations and their significance. In so doing, it offers you a new way to build up your understanding of the most topical science. To speculate is to accumulate. To read a ‘What If...?’ is to accumulate the knowledge you need to debate the shape that our universe and world will take in the future. Also available in the series ‘What if Money Grew on Trees?’

      ‘What if...?’ are the two words that sow the seeds for human speculation, experimentation, invention, evolution, revolution, revision and change. Consider the consequences of travelling back to the future or exploring the past. What if we dug a black hole or built a warp drive? How far away is science fiction from science fact? Explore aspects of physics that today seem as strange as when they first fooled great thinkers of the past or that remain speculative today. What If Einstein Was Wrong? gathers together a team of scientific scholars to consider 50 key questions and their consequences, along with 7 historic speculations and their significance. In so doing, it offers you a new way to build up your understanding of the most topical science. To speculate is to accumulate. To read a ‘What If...?’ is to accumulate the knowledge you need to debate the shape that our universe and world will take in the future. Also available in the series ‘What if Money Grew on Trees?’

    Author

    Neva Goodwin

    Neva Goodwin, who provides the foreword, is Co-Director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.

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