Money: The Unauthorized Biography--From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies Martin FelixPaperback
Money: The Unauthorized Biography--From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies Martin FelixPaperback What is money, and how does it work? Martin describes how the Western idea of money emerged in the ancient…
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography--From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies Martin FelixPaperback
What is money, and how does it work? Martin describes how the Western idea of money emerged in the ancient world, and was shaped over the centuries by tensions between sovereigns and the emerging middle classes. In this tour de force of political, cultural, and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing less than our conventional understanding of one of humankind's greatest inventions.
He concludes with practical solutions for making money serve us--and, in an introduction and epilogue new to this edition, a discussion of what Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies mean for money's future. Money, he argues, has always been an intensely political instrument, and that it is our failure to remember this that led to the crisis in our financial system and the Great Recession. From John Locke to Montesquieu, from Sparta to the Soviet Union, Money is a far-ranging and magisterial