rule in nineteenth-century Switzerland / Mischa Suter -- Invention figures and imagining shrubs : bank bureaucrats' lack of … Beltramini -- Money, commercial exchange, and global connections -- Philippine colonial money and the futures of Spanish empire … exchanges / Bryna Goodman -- Money and autonomy in a settler colony : the politics of monetary regulation in colonial Zimbabwe …

of financial crises, showing that money is taken out of circulation when bank loans are paid back. This key insight is at …Introduction -- 1 What is money? -- A History of Money and Banking -- 2 Money from the very beginning -- 3 Banks enter … role of banks in a modern economy -- II An Analysis of Financial Crises -- 8 The role of money and the logic of recessions …

"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review“Convincingly makes the case that finance is … as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes … millennia, and around the world, Goetzmann details how wondrous financial technologies and institutions—money, bonds, banks …