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A History of Money - From Ancient Times to the Present Day
Published by: Fruchtzwerg (Karma: 7914.43) on 20 June 2008 | Views: 2948
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Professor Glyn Davies,Economic Adviser to the Julian Hodge Bank Ltd, and sometime Chief Economic Adviser to the Secretary of State for Wales, and then to the Bank of Wales, is an ideal person to write the history of money itself. In his fifteen years as Sir Julian Hodge Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Glyn Davies earned worldwide recognition as one of the United Kingdom's front line economists. Both the CBI and various Select Committees of the House of Commons have sought his help.
Contents
1THE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF MONEY AND BARTER
2 FROM PRIMITIVE AND ANCIENT MONEY TO THE INVENTION OF COINAGE 3000 - 600 BC
3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN MONEY 600 BC - AD 400
4 THE PENNY AND THE POUND IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN MONEY 410 - 1485
5 THE EXPANSION OF TRADE AND FINANCE 1485 - 1640
6 THE BIRTH AND EARLY GROWTH OF BRITISH BANKING 1640 - 1789
7 THE ASCENDANCY OF STERLING 1789 - 1914
8 BRITISH MONETARY DEVELOPMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
9 AMERICAN MONETARY DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1700
10 ASPECTS OF MONETARY DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE AND JAPAN
11 THIRD WORLD MONEY AND DEBT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
12 GLOBAL MONEY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
13 FURTHER TOWARDS A GLOBAL CURRENCY
