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The history of money is the development over time of systems for the exchange, storage, and measurement of wealth.Money is a means of fulfilling these functions indirectly and in general rather than directly, as with barter.
These societies regarded inanimate matter as alive, like plants, animals and people, and capable of reproducing itself. Hence if you lent 'food money', or monetary tokens of any kind, it was legitimate to charge interest. [122] Food money in the shape of olives, dates, seeds or animals was lent out as early as c. 5000 BCE, if not
The first president of the Economic History Association, Edwin F. Gay, described the aim of economic history as to provide new perspectives in the economics and history disciplines: 'An adequate equipment with two skills, that of the historian and the economist, is not easily acquired, but experience shows that it is both necessary and possible ...
A History of Money and Banking in the United States is a 2002 book by economist Murray Rothbard, released posthumously based on his archived manuscripts. [1] The author traces inflations, banking panics, and money meltdowns from the Colonial Period through the mid-20th century.
Pages in category "History of money" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World is a 2008 book by then-Harvard professor Niall Ferguson, [1] and an adapted television documentary for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS (US), [2] which in 2009 won an International Emmy Award. It examines the long history of money, credit, and banking.
The first issue amounted to 242 million dollars. This paper money would supposedly be redeemed for state taxes, but the holders were eventually paid off in 1791 at the rate of one cent on the dollar. By 1780, the paper money was "not worth a Continental", as people said, and a second issue of new currency was attempted.
From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831–1995 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Meltzer, Allan H. A History of the Federal Reserve (2 vol. U of Chicago Press, 2010). Murphy, Sharon Ann. Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic (2017) online review