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Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism


ISBN13: 9780198709589
Published: July 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2014)
Price: £30.49
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Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter.

It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself - along with the rules that structure it, the politics and ideas that shape it, and the benefits that flow from it.

One particularly dramatic transformation in money's design brought capitalism to England. For centuries, the English government monopolized money's creation. The Crown sold people coin for a fee in exchange for silver and gold. 'Commodity money' was a fragile and difficult medium; the first half of the book considers the kinds of exchange and credit it invited, as well as the politics it engendered.

Capitalism arrived when the English reinvented money at the end of the 17th century. When it established the Bank of England, the government shared its monopoly over money creation for the first time with private investors, institutionalizing their self-interest as the pump that would produce the money supply.

The second half of the book considers the monetary revolution that brought unprecedented possibilities and problems. The invention of circulating public debt, the breakdown of commodity money, the rise of commercial bank currency, and the coalescence of ideological commitments that came to be identified with the Gold Standard - all contributed to the abundant and unstable medium that is modern money.

All flowed as well from a collision between the individual incentives and public claims at the heart of the system. The drama had constitutional dimension: money, as its history reveals, is a mode of governance in a material world. That character undermines claims in economics about money's neutrality. The monetary design innovated in England would later spread, producing the global architecture of modern money.

Subjects:
Legal History, Banking and Finance
Contents:
Introduction
1. Creation Stories
2. From Metal to Money: Producing the "Just Penny"
3. Commodity Money as an Extreme Sport: Flows, Famines, Debasements, and Imitation Pennies
4. The High Politics of Money: Strong Coin, Heavy Taxes, and the English Invention of Public Credit
5. The Social Stratigraphy of Coin and Credit in Late Medieval England
6. Priming the Pump: The Sovereign Path Towards Paying for Coin and Circulating Credit
7. Interests, Rights, and the Currency of Public Debt
8. Reinventing Money: The Beginning of Bank Currency
9. Re-theorizing Money: The Struggle over Money in the Modern Imagination
10. The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Modern Money
Epilogue: The Gold Standard in an Era of Inconvertibility
Conclusion: From Blood to Water
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