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A Finaeon Guide Powered by GFD
This book provides a history of currencies for each currency-issuing country or territory on Earth. Sections offer details about coins and banknotes, along with brief histories to help contextualize changes in a region's or nation's currency over time. Covering different eras, the book explores how global trade, economic policies, and geopolitical changes have influenced currency systems.
A Global History of Currencies includes information to help researchers, economists, and history enthusiasts understand how money has shaped economies and civilizations over centuries. The organization of the book is both chronological and regional, making it easy for readers to explore how currency development differs across time periods and locations.
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Bryan Taylor is Chief Economist of Finaeon, Inc., previously known as Global Financial Data (GFD). He received his PhD in economics from Claremont Graduate University. Taylor has taught economics and finance at multiple universities. In 1990, he began building what became the Global Financial Database, a long-horizon repository created by collecting, transcribing, and harmonizing financial and economic data from historical archives worldwide. He is based in Irvine, California.
Michelle Suzanne Kangas. Kangas is CEO of Finaeon, Inc., a financial data company. Kangas and Taylor co-founded Global Financial Data in the mid-1990s and built a proprietary financial data platform serving analysts and researchers across academia, investment firms, and industry. She is based in San Clemente, California.
uries. A recognized authority on financial history, Taylor is the author of four books tracing the development of stocks, bonds, and currencies. He loves international travel where he studies the history of other countries.
Michelle Suzanne Kangas is the editor of Dr. Bryan Taylor s Global History of Currency and CEO of Finaeon, Inc. (formerly Global Financial Data). She met Dr. Taylor in 1988 as his economics student at California State University, Los Angeles an experience that deepened her interest in the intersection of research and analysis. After graduating in 1991, Michelle and Bryan co-founded Global Financial Data in the mid-1990s and built a proprietary financial data platform serving analysts and researchers across academia, investment firms, and industry. At Finaeon, she brings sharp product focus and an inventive marketing style to transform complex historical data into usable tools. Michelle lives in Southern California, where she enjoys art, theatre, concerts, and a rewarding family life with her two grown children.
