Money’s history is extensive, yet modern currencies are primarily supported by the state’s management of the economy and inflation through fiat currency.

History does nevertheless throw up “natural” experiments. In an earlier paper, Mr Brzezinski, Mr Palma and two co-authors exploited one source of variation in the money supply of early modern ...

MATERIAL produced by recent ethnological research calls for a revision of the hitherto generally accepted 'classical' conception of the origin and early evolution of money. That conception may be ...

Money has been part of human history for at least the past 5,000 years in some form or another. Historians generally agree that a system of bartering was likely used before this time.

Neutrality of Money History . Conceptually, money neutrality grew out of the Cambridge tradition in economics between 1750 and 1870.

In his seminal work, "The Origin of Money" (1892), Carl Menger outlines how money emerges naturally from the processes of trade and barter.

MORE than half this book consists of very short precis precis of data on ‘primitive money’ from ethnographical and historical literature, to supply a basis for a theoretical analysis of ...

The Austrian School of Economics offers a unique and insightful perspective on the origin of money and the concept of sound money. Foundational figures such as Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises ...

With them, I want to share a brief history of how American women gained access to money and their role in finance over the last four decades. As a man, I found so much of what I learned from my ...