Money : (Record no. 23677)

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2013047572
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9780307962430 (hardcover)
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 332.4/9
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Martin, Felix,
Dates 1974-
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Money :
Subtitle the unauthorised biography /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Felix Martin.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 320 pages :
Other Details illustrations ;
Size 25 cm.
GENERAL NOTE
General note "Originally published in Great Britain under the title Money: The Unauthorized Biography by The Bodley Head, a division of Random House, London, in 2013."
BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and index.
SUMMARY
Summary From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind's greatest inventions. What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing less than our conventional understanding of money. He describes how the Western idea of money emerged from interactions between Mesopotamia and ancient Greece and was shaped over the centuries by tensions between sovereigns and the emerging middle classes. He explores the extraordinary diversity of the world's monetary systems, from the Pacific island of Yap, where value was once measured by immovable stones, to the currency of today that exists solely on globally connected computer screens. Martin shows that money has always been a deeply political instrument, and that it is our failure to remember this that led to the crisis in our financial system and so to the Great Recession. He concludes with practical solutions to our current pressing, money-based problems. Money skips nimbly among such far-ranging topics as John Locke's disastrous excursion into economic policy, Montesquieu's faith in finance to discipline the power of kings, the social organization of ancient Sparta and the Soviet Union's ill-fated attempt to abolish money and banking altogether. Throughout, Martin makes vivid sense of a chaotic and sometimes incoherent system--the everyday currency that we all share--in the clearest and most stimulating terms. This is a magisterial work of history and economics, with profound implications for the world to.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Money
General History.
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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Public note Location Map
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SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
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Holdings
Date last seen Full call number Barcode Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Permanent location Current location Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition
26/01/2017 332.49 MA MO T0010608 20.02 26/01/2017 REGULAR   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 07/05/2014 AMAUS