The History of Money - Jack Weatherford
Language: EnglishKeywords: 
Banking
 Commodity Money
 Croesus
 Electronic Money
 Industrial Revolution
 Paper Money
 Renaissance Italy
 Scientific Revolution
 Welfare State
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Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 02-16-10
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
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.
Weatherford brings a cultural anthropologist’s wide-angled perspective to this illuminating investigation of money’s role in shaping human affairs.
He identifies three great mutations in the story of money.
The first began with the invention of coins in the Anatolian kingdom of Lydia 3000 years ago, sparking a monetary revolution that underpinned classical Greek and Roman civilizations.
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.
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.
Full of forgotten lore and provocative opinions (e.g., harmful inflation is identified as the dominant monetary theme of our century), and sprinkled with allusions to Voltaire, Goethe, L. Frank Baum and Gertrude Stein, this intriguing selective survey will captivate even readers with no particular yen for financial knowledge.
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This post has 3 comments
October 30th, 2020
All should be in the right order now….
October 30th, 2020
“….primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all-purpose electronic cash card.”
Wrong. It’s the men who had not yet thought of money (abstract) that were primitive.
It’s the idea of it that’s sophisticated, not the shells or coins or bank cards.
Perhaps we’re the primitives, since we have yet to best their old idea.
February 15th, 2025
Thanks
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