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A Quick History of Money : From Cash Cows to Crypto-Currencies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gifford, Clive.
- Series:
- Quick Histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Money.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2021.
- Summary:
- A Quick History of Money takes us from barter to Bitcoin, packed with facts and jokes about how and why money works... and sometimes doesn't.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Time Before Money: How early people managed without money
- It's a Gift: Presents in the past
- Swap Shop: All about bartering
- Cow Much?: Stores of value
- All That Glitters: Gold and silver
- Shelling Out: Selling for seashells
- Mesopotamia's Got Talent[s]: Marvelous Mesopotamian money
- Owe No!: Pouches, priests, and promises to pay
- Very Interesting: Simple and compound interest
- Coining It: The world's first coins
- Coins Catch On: Countries go coin-crazy
- Don't Bank On It: Banks in ancient Greece
- Slave to Money: Debt slavery in the ancient world
- Funding Fights: The currency of the Roman Empire
- Roman Rises: Money mayhem in ancient Rome
- Fine Time: Blood money in Dark Ages Europe
- China's Changing Currencies: Cowries and coins in ancient China
- Flying Cash: The invention of paper money
- Stone-Cold Rich: BIG money on the island of Yap
- World's Wealthiest: Mansa Musa's many millions
- What a Rotta!: Numbers and banks in Renaissance Italy
- Families and Florins: The Medicis make a killing
- Taking Stock: All about stocks and shares
- Cocoa, Cotton, and Copper: Aztecs, Incas, and empires
- Super Silver: Second-best? Not in the Spanish Empire.
- Paper Problem Solvers: Paper gets popular
- Coin Clippers: Crafty currency criminals
- National Banks: The first central banks
- Cashing In: Rothschild gets rich
- Minted!: The first coin-making machines
- An Upsetting Business: How coins are created today
- The Greenback: The mighty one-dollar bill
- Mark My Words: Hyperinflation after World War I
- Making Money: Faking it with a famous forger
- Crash!: The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
- Wealth of Nations: Getting to grips with GDP
- Opportunity Knox: The US's fortified gold reserves
- Put It On Plastic: The first credit cards.
- Playing with Plastic: New notes in Australia
- Holes in the Wall: All about ATMs
- Microbanks: Big ideas for starting small
- Beyond Banks: Crowdfunding and P2P lending
- Euro Most Welcome: Currency unions and the euro
- Making Money from Money: Commemorative coins
- Feeling Reserved: Fractional reserve banking
- The Global Financial Crisis: 2008 and the Great Recession
- Bitcoin Begins: The wild world of cryptocurrencies
- Rich and Poor: Wealth and inequality
- The End of Hard Cash?: Digital dollars and contactless cards
- Future Money: What lies in store for money and how we use it?
- Timeline
- Money and You!
- Buy, Bye, Bye
- Money Mishaps
- Money Quiz
- Taking Things Further: Further reading and resources
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gifford, Clive A Quick History of Money
- ISBN:
- 9780711264366
- 0711264368
- OCLC:
- 1292358205
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