Money - A History

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Whether or not 'money makes the world go round', few phenomena in human history have been the focus of so much constant and fevered attention, occasioned so many moral and religious structures or been the cause of so much strife and competition between individuals, institutions and states.
This book examines the history of money throughout the world, from the earliest known records of payments to the cashless money of our own day, and sets it against a background of broader economic and social issues, such as the varied moral, political and religious attitudes provoked by money in different cultures.