Forrest Capie is Professor of Economic History at Cass Business School, City University, London, where he was Head of … Social Sciences. He was editor of the Economic History Review and served on the editorial boards of other journals in the …, Economica, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Economic History Review, European Economic History, and British …

from the Middle Ages to today. It radically rethinks previous attempts at a history of monetary institutions by avoiding …