Money :
Martin, Felix.
Money : the unauthorised biography / Felix Martin. - London : Vintage Books, 2014. - 331 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
What is money and where does it come from? We may think we know the answers, but Felix Martin traverses the globe and delves into ancient history to radically reconfigure our understanding of man's greatest invention. Across the centuries and continents, currency has come in many different forms: sugar in the West Indies, nails in Scotland, tobacco in Virginia, dried cod in Newfoundland. But how did the concept of currency arise? Popular economics will tell us that today's financial structure evolved from bartering, mankind's oldest economic system. But this, says Martin, is flawed history. Machine generated contents note: 1.What is Money?--2.Getting Money's Measure--3.The Aegean Invention of Economic Value--4.Financial Sovereignty and Monetary Insurrection--5.The Birth of the Money Interest--6.The Natural History of the Vampire Squid--7.The Great Monetary Settlement--8.The Economic Consequences of Mr Locke--9.Money Through the Looking-Glass--10.Strategies of the Sceptics--11.Structural Solutions--12.Hamlet Without the Prince: How Economics Forgot Money--13.... and Why it is a Problem--14.How to Turn the Locusts into Bees--15.The Boldest Measures are the Safest--16.Taking Money Seriously.
English
9780099578529
Finance, Management, Economics, Strategies, Information, Investments.
332.49 MAR
Money : the unauthorised biography / Felix Martin. - London : Vintage Books, 2014. - 331 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
What is money and where does it come from? We may think we know the answers, but Felix Martin traverses the globe and delves into ancient history to radically reconfigure our understanding of man's greatest invention. Across the centuries and continents, currency has come in many different forms: sugar in the West Indies, nails in Scotland, tobacco in Virginia, dried cod in Newfoundland. But how did the concept of currency arise? Popular economics will tell us that today's financial structure evolved from bartering, mankind's oldest economic system. But this, says Martin, is flawed history. Machine generated contents note: 1.What is Money?--2.Getting Money's Measure--3.The Aegean Invention of Economic Value--4.Financial Sovereignty and Monetary Insurrection--5.The Birth of the Money Interest--6.The Natural History of the Vampire Squid--7.The Great Monetary Settlement--8.The Economic Consequences of Mr Locke--9.Money Through the Looking-Glass--10.Strategies of the Sceptics--11.Structural Solutions--12.Hamlet Without the Prince: How Economics Forgot Money--13.... and Why it is a Problem--14.How to Turn the Locusts into Bees--15.The Boldest Measures are the Safest--16.Taking Money Seriously.
English
9780099578529
Finance, Management, Economics, Strategies, Information, Investments.
332.49 MAR
