There is perhaps nothing so commonplace and yet so mystifying as money. But to European communists, money was clearly … explores the East German attempt to create a perfect society by eliminating money and explains the reasons for its failure … and the cultural function of money, Zatlin challenges traditional approaches to economic planning by offering a novel …

"This book traces the role of money in the creation of the state. From US independence to the establishment of the EU … rational attitude toward money as a means of transactions rather than as a symbol of national identity." …

"Money is increasingly cheap, digital, and mobile. In Money in the Twenty-First Century, economist Richard Holden … examines the virtues and risks of low interest rates, mobile money, and cryptocurrencies, and explains how these three … come. Holden weaves in the stories of three people who have exerted massive influence over the future of modern money: US …

currency you can use to pay for x things, so use this money. Goldberg's narrative traces how this happy accident has grown into … currency has not been linear. Weaving monetary economics and American history, Easy Money is a new, highly novel starting …Introductions. Money and its inventions: theoretical considerations ; England in the late sixteenth century ; English …