"《更多》描述了世界经济的发展，从公元前7000年**批黑曜石刀片从现在的土耳其被传播到伊朗-伊拉克边境开始，最后讲到我们现在所处的中美贸易战。

《更多》通过研究细节——从标准的中世纪小屋的设计到巴黎的三个皮带-搭扣-制作行会对裤子固定领域的创新所采取的压制措施——说明了广泛的变化。Coggan从头到尾都在说明，历史上的经济比我们想象的要复杂得多，因为它们和现代经济一样被信贷和金融工具网捆绑在一起。

Coggan表明，在我们漫长旅程的每一步中，是人与人之间的联系——使更多的贸易，更多的专业化，更多的想法和更多的自由成为可能——一直在创造繁荣的条件。

More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now.

Taking history in great strides, More illustrates broad changes by examining details from the design of the standard medieval cottage to the stranglehold that Paris's three belt-buckle-making guilds exercised over innovation in the field of holding up trousers. Along the way Coggan reveals that historical economies were far more sophisticated than we might imagine - tied together by webs of credit and financial instruments much like the modern economy.

Coggan shows how, at every step of our long journey, it was connections between people - allowing more trade, more specialisation, more ideas and more freedom - that always created the conditions of prosperity.

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