List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. The monetary system as an evolutionary construct Georgina M. Gómez; 2. Monetary Plurality in Economic Theory Jérôme Blanc, Ludovic Desmedt, Laurent Le Maux, Jaime Marques-Pereira, Pepita Ould-Ahmed and Bruno Théret ;...

The monetary system as an evolutionary construct / Georgina M. Gómez -- Monetary plurality in economic theory / Jérôme Blanc, Ludovic Desmedt, Laurent Le Maux, Jaime Marques-Pereira, Pepita Ould-Ahmed and Bruno Théret -- Making sense of the plurality of money : a Polanyian attempt / Jérôme...

1. Introduction -- 2. European money and culture before 1914 -- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar -- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under...