Authors not specified. Tokyo, The Bank of Japan, Currency Museum. — 38 p. Before Mintage Commencement of Mintage in Japan Use of Imported Coins Use of Gold and Silver During the 15th and 16th Centuries The Largest Gold Coin in the World Currency System of the Yedo Era Changes in the Monetary System of the Yedo Era Meiji Restoration and Birth of the "Yen" Establishment of the...
Rouledge, 1994. — 320 p. This book presents a detailed and surprising history of money from Charlemagne's reform in approximately AD800 to the end of the Silver Wars in 1896. It also summarizes twentieth century developments and places them in their historical context. Since 1914 the world has been bedevilled by inflation, depression, devaluation, unstable exchange rates and...
University of Wales Press, 2003. — 720 p. This is a straight-forward, readable account, written with the minimum of jargon, of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different peoples throughout the ages from ancient times to the present day. First published in hardback in 1994 and selected by the American Libraries Association as an Outstanding...
Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1839. — 242 p. The scarcity of money was a vexatious problem with the American colonists from the beginning. The tax-gatherers and tradesmen experienced much trouble and delay in making collections. Importations from England of implements of production were, at the outset, necessarily proportionate to the wealth of the community. Peltry and fish, which...
Penguin Random House, 2018. — 77 p. — ISBN10: 1784874027, 13 978-1784874025. How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century...
Wiley, 2005. — 736 p. A History of Interest Rates presents a very readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices over four millennia of economic history. Despite the paucity of data prior to the Industrial Revolution, authors Homer and Sylla provide a highly detailed analysis of money markets and borrowing practices in major economies. Underlying the analysis is...
Beard Boolcs, 2001. — 387 p. Deals with the legal elements in the history of the system of money from 1774 to 1970, looking closely at the benefits and detriments that have accrued to that system from legal interventions.
Unknown Publisher (2011), 700 p. History of how the current enslaving monetary system, in which Banklords get a credit monopoly (which gives them the power to create unlimited money from nothing at no liability to themselves because it is redeemable for goods or services produced by anyone forced to accept the private Federal Reserve dollar currency notes and cheques) and use...
Bloomington: Principia Press, Inc., 1939. — 454 p. The purpose of this book is to present in one volume the background and principal developments in the use of silver as money since the beginning of the nineteenth century. The silver question was an important and controversial one from about 1876 to 1896, and again become a subject of dispute during the early 1930's. The...
Money Museum, 2013. — 21 p. It’s an old wives’ tale that the Middle Ages were dark and gloomy, although most people don’t know much about them. But a look behind the scenes into this fascinating period shows how varied and colourful it really was. And coins, or rather currencies, show that vividly. There were lots of currencies in the Middle Ages, many of which have ended up in...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 298 p. — ISBN10: 0231173725. — ISBN13: 978-0231173728. The sharing economy's unique customer-to-company exchange is possible because of the way in which money has evolved. These transactions have not always been as fluid as they are today, and they are likely to become even more fluid. It is therefore critical that we learn to appreciate...
Ludwig Von Mises Inst, 2002. — 510 p. In this volume, Murray Rothbard has given us a comprehensive history of money and banking in the United States, from colonial times to World War II, the first to explicitly use the interpretive framework of Austrian monetary theory. But even aside from the explicitly Austrian theoretical framework undergirding the historical narrative, this...
Grand Central Publishing, 2015. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-455578-52-5. The importance of money in our lives is readily apparent to everyone--rich, poor, and in between. However grudgingly, most of us accept the expression "Money makes the world go round" as a universal truth. We are all aware of the power of money--how it influences our moods, compels us to take risks, and serves...
London: School of Economics, 2018. — 33 p. — (Working Papers No. 275). The paper discusses which options medieval political authorities had to satisfy the demand for complex currencies. It distinguishes several models, each of which caused problems: A first one, where the basic unit was supplemented by a range of other denominations whose weight and purity where exactly...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 260 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History). This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman World, using new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy and which factors need to be considered in order to improve our...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 260 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History). This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman World, using new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy and which factors need to be considered in order to improve our...
Three Rivers Press, 1997. — 288 p. Of all the changes that are rocking the world and promising to leave it a far less recognizable place, perhaps none is more fundamental than the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money. As Jack Weatherford makes clear, we are already seeing the beginning of the third revolution of money. The first began with the invention...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 281 p. This book presents an original review of past and present research of national historiographies on medieval financial history from Central Europe. Introduction: Medieval Finance in Central European Historiography A New Perspective on the Imperial Coinage The Reception of Imperial Monetary Reforms in 16th-century Northern Germany The Kremnica...
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