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A long view of money, wars & governments - Tribune-Review

A long view of money, wars & governments - Tribune-Review | money money money | Scoop.it

The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath are part of a cycle of history that began five centuries ago, according to Kwasi Kwarteng's “War and Gold: A 500-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt” (PublicAffairs, available Tuesday).


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The unknown financial crisis of 1914 - OUPblog (blog)

The unknown financial crisis of 1914 - OUPblog (blog) | money money money | Scoop.it


The mounting diplomatic crisis in the last week of July 1914 triggered a major financial crisis in London, the world's foremost international centre, and around the world.

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Was Money Created to Overcome Barter? - Global Economic Intersection

This past May, marked the one hundredth anniversary of A. Mitchell Innes’s (1913) publication of a paper titled, “What is Money?” in The Banking Law Journal.  In it, this British diplomat, then living in the US, reviewed the history and usage of money and its forms in credit and coinage.  On both historical and logical grounds, he asserts that the “modern science of political economy” rests on a series of assumptions regarding money and credit that are “false.”

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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation