This collection explores coined money and its uses over a wide area of the ancient Greek world. Written by numismatists and ancient historians, the papers cover a broad period from Archaic Greece to Roman Egypt and offers fresh insights into this important aspect of the ancient …
As currency bills are issued in denominations of thousands or hundreds of thousands, as economies return to barter, and as soldiers riot over their paychecks, people throughout the world are becoming painfully aware of currency instability. But West Africa has been subject to ch…
Wie man Geld macht, es behält und vermehrt. Das klassiche Buch über den gekonnten Umgang mit Geld, basierend auf Erkenntnissen und Parabeln der Antike.
"Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)! If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping b…
"Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)! If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping b…
The author, a noted economist and diplomat, traces the evolution of money and the institutions and techniques for its management and mismanagement from Lydian coinage to 20th century inflation.
In the present volume, the first of the author's works to be translated into English, Samezo Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, Volume I. Kuruma carefully explains each of the theoretical qu…
A cultural history of money
The expanding use of money in contemporary Vietnam has been propelled by the rise of new markets, digital telecommunications, and an ideological emphasis on money's autonomy from the state. People in Vietnam use the metaphor of "open doors" to describe their everyday experiences…