Now here is a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.” For David McWilliams, an ...
Menger said alternative monetary theories were “unhistorical,” but one could argue that Menger’s theory also lacks historical ...
Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...
When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...
The evolution of money is intricately tied to major developments in politics, science, and art, according to this insightful history. Economist McWilliams (The Pope’s Children) begins in ancient ...
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