Book review: How to Spend a Trillion Dollars, by Rowan Hooper

You can’t solve a problem by throwing money at it, and funding things wisely is always complicated. But what if you had a trillion dollars to change the world – what could you do with it? How much change could it buy?

That’s the premise of Rowan Hooper’s entertaining thought experiment How to Spend a Trillion Dollars. By giving himself permission to play with a very large budget, Hooper finds a new perspective on some of the world’s biggest problems and how they could be solved.

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