Making money : coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism /

Desan, Christine

Making money : coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism / Christine Desan. - xxii, 478 páginas : ilustraciones .

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1. Creation stories. - 2. From metal to money: producing the "just penny". - 3. Commodity money as an extreme sport: flows, famines, debasements, and imitation pennies. - 4. The high politics of medieval money: strong coin, heavy taxes, and the english invention of public credit. - 5. The social stratigraphy of coin and credit in late medieval England. - 6. Priming the pump: The sovereign path towards paying for coin and circulating credit. - 7. Interests, rights, and the currency of public debt. - 8. Reinventing money: The beginning of bank currency. - 9. Re-theorizing money: The struggle over the modern imagination. - 10. The 18th century architecture of modern money. - 11. Epilogue to the 18th century: The gold standard in an era of inconvertibility.

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Moneda -- Legislación
Moneda -- Historia-- Inglaterra

343.03209 / D441m 2014