Silver, Money and Credit gathers a collection of contributions by leading specialists on the role of silver in Ancient Mesopotamia. The volume is a tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek, professor emeritus at the VU University Amsterdam. The thematic core area is the documentation concerning...

"This volume consists of over twenty new essays written by friends, colleagues and pupils of Dr Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, who died on 1 September 2011. As well as a fitting...

The functioning of financial centers / Charles P. Kindleberger -- Funding risk in the international interbank market / Jack Guttentag and Richard Herring -- U.S. monetary policy in an interdependent world / Henry C. Wallich -- The effects of autonomous capital inflows / Dale W. Henderson --...