Contents:Table of 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;
Bibliography
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