Money shapes every aspect of modern life, but its journey from ancient commodities to digital currency spans thousands of years. The story of money reveals how human societies solved the fundamental ...

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 ...

Ironically, an acatallactic pseudo-theory of money that emerged from a school of thought that rejected theory in favor of an ...

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 ...

The evolution of money is intricately tied to major developments in politics, science, and art, according to this insightful history. Economist McWilliams (The Pope’s Children) begins in ancient ...

The first recorded personal name in human history didn’t belong to a king or a priest. It belonged to a Sumerian brewer named Kashim and his name was inscribed on a clay tablet to document a loan he’d ...

Menger said alternative monetary theories were “unhistorical,” but one could argue that Menger’s theory also lacks historical ...

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 ...