{short description of image}  
 

THE HISTORY OF MONEY

Jack Weatherford

 

Three Rivers Press, N.Y., 1997, 288 pgs., index, bibliography, end notes, paperback

 
 

Reviewer comment: This is a 'popular' style book written for the general reader by an author of many books, but not an economist. Each chapter is focused on some 'stories' about various leading 'actors' such as bankers or Templers or Aztecs. The coverate is episodic. The topics from the 1500's on are relatively well described. But the author has a very weak understanding of ancient Mesopotamia, the first civilization that developed money ,banking and elaborate trade.

 
  Forward  
 

Introduction

 
 

I - Classic Cash

 
 

1. - Cannibals, Choclate, and Cash

 
 

2. - The Fifth Element

 
 

3. - The Premature Death of Money

 
 

4. - Knights of Commerce

 
 

5. - The Renaissance: New Money for Old Art

 
 

6. - The Golden Curse

 
 

II - Paper Money

 
 

7. - The Birth of the Dollar

 
 

8. - The Devil's Mint

 
 

9. - Metric Money

 
 

10. - The Gold Bug

 
 

11. - The Yellow Brick Road

 
 

12. - The Golden Playpen of Politics

 
 

III Electronic Money

 
 

13. - Wild Money and the Stealth Tax

 
 

14. - The Cash Ghetto

 
 

15. - Interlude in Plastic

 
 

16. - TheErotic Life of Electronic Money

 
 

17. - The Art of Currency Terror

 
 

18. - The Age of Money

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

Return to Xenophon.