Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, partic

The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history. Contributions to this volume analyse banking and financial history in

A History of Money is exactly that--a look at how money, the indispensable unit of our economy, developed through time. Starting with the barter system, the aut