Volume
Carlo de Carolis
Value from Nothing
A History of Money and Debt, from the Barleycorn to Programmable Money
Contents
15 chapters- 00 Preface Why tell the story of money
- 01 Before Money: The Debt Mesopotamia, the myth of barter and the origins of credit
- 02 The Birth of Coinage Lydia, Greece, Rome and money guaranteed by the state
- 03 Faith, Usury and Credit in the Middle Ages The ban on interest and the invention of finance
- 04 The Renaissance Bankers The Medici, the Fugger and the invention of modern banking
- 05 Gold, Silver and the New World Potosí, the price revolution and the first global economy
- 06 Paper and Trust: The First Bubbles Tulips, Amsterdam, John Law and the South Sea Bubble
- 07 The Birth of Central Banks The Bank of England and the lender of last resort
- 08 The Gold Standard and Its Fall From the golden age of gold to Bretton Woods
- 09 The Fiat Era and Inflation Nixon 1971, stagflation and the Volcker shock
- 10 Sovereign Debt and Crises Eight centuries of financial folly, up to 2008
- 11 Money Becomes Code From Satoshi Nakamoto to decentralised money
- 12 The Future of Money CBDCs, de-dollarisation and the questions that remain
- 13 A Chronology of Money Dates and turning points, from the clay tablet to programmable money
- BIB Bibliography Cited sources and paths for further reading