Présentation de l'éditeur : "Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of West…
Investigating changes in the public and private uses of money in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s, and money throughout cultures and throughout history, the author concentrates on domestic transactions, gifts, and welfare payments.
Crowdfunding and the democratization of finance
"From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world." "Written by a distin…
"Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not…
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins …
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins …
Comprendre la monnaie dans toute sa complexité, tel est l'objectif de ce livre. En tant que lien entre l'individuel et le collectif, la monnaie transmet la puissance souveraine à l'économie à travers le temps par son emprise sur la finance, donc sur le système des dettes. Mais l…
La 4e de couv. indique : "Comprendre la monnaie dans toute sa complexité, tel est l'objectif de ce livre. En tant que lien entre l'individuel et le collectif, la monnaie transmet la puissance souveraine à l'économie à travers le temps par son emprise sur la finance, donc sur le …
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins …