The Power of Money How Ideas about Money Shaped the Modern World /
Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a “work in progress.” In fact, history shows societies have tried out a wide diversity of monetary arrangements. Ideas about money have played key roles at crucial turning points in world history...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Imprint: | Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Available in Springer Economics and Finance eBooks 2019 English/International. |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. European money and culture before 1914
- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar
- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s
- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism
- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas
- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under control (1940s and 1950s)
- 8. New money from the New World
- 9. American culture and the dollar after World War II
- 10. The century’s hinge (mid 1960s to late 1970s)
- 11. 1980-2000: Creation of a global money space
- 12. The global money culture - an outline
- 13. Money Delusion and the crash, 2000-2010
- 14. Money as a tool of the state
- 15. The euro: the biggest money project
- 16. Crony and criminal capitalism since 2010
- 17. Global money: Insiders and Outsiders
- 18. The jealous state and the future of money
- 19. The new sociology of money
- 20. Money and the decline of classical liberalism
- 21. What can we learn from Japanese culture
- 22. Contemporary art: towards new ways of 'seeing' money
- 23. The money we deserve.