The Evolution of Money

The Evolution of Money illuminates this fascinating reality, focusing on the tension between currency's real and abstract properties and advancing a vital theory of money rooted in this dual exchange. It begins with the debt tablets of ancient Mesopotamia and follows with the development of coin money in early Greece and Rome, gold-backed currencies in medieval Europe, and monetary economics in Victorian England. The book concludes in the digital era, with the cryptocurrencies and service providers that are making the most of money's virtual aspects and that suggest a tectonic shift within the relevant power structures. By building this organic timeline, The Evolution of Money helps us visualize and strategize money's next, transformative role.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Origins
2. The Money Magnet
3. Virtual Money
4. New World
5. A Wonderful Machine
6. The Money Power
7. Solid Gold Economics
8. New Money
9. Changing the Dominant Monetary Regime, Bit(coin) by Bit
10. Utopia
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

David Orrell and Roman Chlupatý

Summary

The Evolution of Money illuminates money's elastic nature, focusing on the tension between currency's real and abstract properties and advancing a vital theory of money. From ancient Mesopotamia to the digital era, The Evolution of Money helps us visualize and strategize money's next, transformative role.

Report

"These authors tackle two of the toughest questions in economics: What is money and why does it have value? They present an intriguing definition of money and theory of money's value. They write a long history of money, weaving in references to current issues and dilemmas facing our society." - Michael Kelly, Lafayette College

Product details

• Authors: Roman Chlupat, Roman Chlupat?, Roman Chlupaty, Roman Chlupatý, David Orrell, David (c/o Robert Lecker Agency) Orrell, David Chlupat Orrell, Orrell David
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2016
• EAN: 9780231173728
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17372-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, Economic history, Political Economy, Monetary Economics, Finance and the finance industry