Chapter 1: From Mining to Money in the Early Modern Atlantic: Digital Approaches and New Perspectives; Renate Pieper, Claudia Jefferies de Lozanne and Markus A. Denzel -- Chapter 2: Money in History Based on Precious Metals; Peter Bernholz -- Chapter 3: Debating Sound Money in Early Modern...

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining...

Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding "how we got here". Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics...