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The history of money review: What made the world go ’round

Now here is a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.” For David McWilliams, an ...
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Making Sense of Dollars and Cents

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...
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Ancient tally sticks across three civilizations challenge myths about money

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...
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A history of money and banking in the United States : the colonial era to World War II / Murray N. Rothbard ; ed ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno

Introduction / Joseph T. Salerno -- pt. 1. The history of money and banking before the twentieth century -- pt. 2. The origins of the Federal Reserve -- pt. 3. From Hoover to Roosevelt : the Federal ...