Making Money
Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism
by Christine Desan
501 pages· ISBN 9780198709572
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In this revisionist history of the development of the modern monetary system, Christine Desan argues that money effectively creates economic activity rather than emerging from it. Her account demonstrates that money's design has been a project central to governance and formative to markets.
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