The History of Money
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (913 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0038NLX5W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 283 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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25,000 print.. In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money, tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all-purpose electronic cash card. National radio publicity. 320 pp. Author tour
"The title of the book is accurate." according to Timothy M Collins. Fascinating book. Before buying books I avoid Googling for reviews, and instead I search the author on social Media. Jack is a knowledgeable, passionate historian who places stories at the center of his lessons. That's his one downside as far as I can tell. I get the sense he corrals history to fit narratives. He's not making things up! He's just leaving out counter arguments for the most part. . Superb and so very readable Such a fine book. So accessible, yet so researched. The chapter on the origins of money in ancient Lydia (near ancient Troy) is unforgettable. Weatherford is an ethnographer who sees far beyond the ken of most economists, perhaps even J. M. Keynes and Adam Smith. The book is a great read for anyone over 17 or 18. I wish professional economists would read it. And then read Weatherford's even more. On the road to Bitcoin Jayne I'm a fan of Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan, and wanted to learn more about history of money. Not nearly as interesting as Genghis Khan, but well researched and well written account. Money has a surprisingly short history and learning how money works makes the advent of e-money all the more likely.
He identifies three great mutations in the story of money. . Next, family-owned, credit-giving banks of Renaissance Italy ushered in the modern world capitalist system, which swept away feudalism and abetted the expansion of European hegemony to the Americas. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. In the third major transition, predicts Weatherford (Savages and Civilization), the current age of paper money will give way to an era of cybermoney, or electronic cash, in which transactions are conducted via the Internet and by other forms of electronic transfer. From Publishers Weekly Weatherford brings a cultural anthropologist's wide-angled perspective to this illuminating investigation of money's role in shaping human affairs. Frank Baum and Gertrude Stein, this intriguing selective survey will captivate even readers with no particular yen for financi