"Founder of the influential heterodox regulation school offers a new theory of money, tracing it's history back 1 …,000 years This book's goal is to understand money in all its complexity. As a link between the individual and the collective …, over time money transmits sovereign power to the economy, by way of its grip on finance and thus on the debt system. But …

Primitive and Non-metallic Money -- Monetary System of Ancient Asia: China -- Monetary System of the Ancient Regime … the Global Silver Standard -- Money, Trade, and Payments in Pre-industrial Europe -- Money Markets and Exchange Rates in … sections cover a wide range of topics, including the historical origins of money; money, coinage, and the state; trade, money …