Description
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in the field of monetary and financial history. The authors comprise different generations of leading scholars from universities worldwide. Thanks to its unrivaled breadth both in time (from antiquity to the present) and geographical coverage (from Europe to the Americas and Asia), the volume is set to become a key reference for historians, economists, and social scientists with an interest in the subject. The handbook reflects the existing variety of scholarly approaches in the field, from theoretically driven macroeconomic history to the political economy of monetary institutions and the historical evolution of monetary policies. Its thematic sections cover a wide range of topics, including the historical origins of money; money, coinage, and the state; trade, money markets, and international currencies; money and metals; monetary experiments; Asian monetary systems; exchange rate regimes; monetary integration; central banking and monetary policy; and aggregate price shocks.
Table of Contents
Primitive and Non-metallic Money.- Monetary System of Ancient Asia: China.- Monetary System of the Ancient Regime.- Medieval Debasement and Seigniorage.- Gresham's Law.- Flows of Precious Metals and Prices in Europe.- Rise and Decline of the Global Silver Standard.- Money, Trade, and Payments in Pre-industrial Europe.- Money Markets and Exchange Rates in Pre-industrial Europe.
