The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 12, March 25, 2007, Article 9

BOOK: WEATHERFORD'S HISTORY OF MONEY

"Weatherford brings a cultural anthropologist's wide-angled perspective
to this illuminating investigation of money's role in shaping human
affairs.

"Money, according to Weatherford, has experienced three revolutions:
the first, with the invention of metallic coins (gold, silver) 3000
years ago; the second, the development of paper money (now the most
prevalent form of money) in Renaissance Italy; and today, on the cusp
of the 21st century, the rise of electronic money (the all-purpose
electronic cash card), which, he believes, will radically change
the international economy.

"Full of forgotten lore and provocative opinions (e.g., harmful inflation
is identified as the dominant monetary theme of our century), and
sprinkled with allusions to Voltaire, Goethe, L. Frank Baum and Gertrude
Stein, this intriguing selective survey will captivate even readers with
no particular yen for financial knowledge.

Robert Heilbroner writing in the Los Angeles Times Book Review (2/16/1997)
states: "This is a fascinating book about the force that makes the world
go round - the dollars, pounds, francs,marks, bahts, ringits, kwansas,
levs, bipwelles, yuans, quetzales, pa'angas, ngultrums, ouguiyas, and
another 200-odd brand names that collectively make up the mysterious
thing we call money."

To read the complete description at ABE Books, see:
description at ABE Books

[The book was published in hardback in 1997 by Crown and reprinted
in paperback by Three Rivers Press in 1998. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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