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...

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...

The imbalance between China's currency, the RMB, and those of other countries is widely regarded as a major problem for the world economy. There was a reform of China's exchange rate mechanism in 2005, following which the RMB appreciated 17% against the US dollar, but many people argue that...

Die Autoren dieses Bandes nehmen die Wachstumsdynamik in den Blick, um innovative Ansätze zur Linderung sozialer und ökologischer Herausforderungen vorzustellen. Alternative Banken und Regionalgeldsysteme verdeutlichen, dass unkonventionelle Ansätze realistisch und praktikabel sein können.