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History of money -- #1 to #7 -- results from a Google search for " Money" + "History" -- top results. ... 9/26/09
1) Go Here first / http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/llyfr.html / By Glynn and Roy Davies / Based on their book / Davies, Glyn. "A History of money from ancient times to the present day", 3rd. ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002. 720p. 0-7083-1717-0 (paperback). - reprinted November 2005. This is a very good source of reliable, deep-rooted information. Covers everything from 9,000 BC to the 21st century. Check all the links at the target of the link immediately above.
1a) A Comparitive Chronology of Money / Taken from the above link. Hundreds of entries -- probably covers everything of importance over 11,000 years.
2) http://library.thinkquest.org/28718/history.html Aimed at children -- by ThinkQuest
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Money_and_Banking_in_the_United_States_%28book%29 / Based on a book by the late Murray Rothbard. He is a very convincing writer -- but he is misguided on some very basic concepts. For instance he focuses only on the quantity of money when writing about inlation and virtually ignore the amount of buyable wealth
4) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/on2/money/history.html
5) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/moolah/history.html / From PBS / Nova
6) http://library.thinkquest.org/J003358F/money.html / Aimed at children -- by ThinkQuest
7) http://www.history.com/content/money / From history.comAn Abbreviated Monetary History of the US: Part 1 (C) 2002,
American Monetary Institute
The History of Money -- How did money originate? - where did coins come from? - who printed the first paper money?
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/money.htm / from about.com
http://www.primeronmoney.com/bookpageb2tob5.html -- By Wright Patman -- gets to the heart of the matte
How paper money first came to be
See "Creating Money Out Of Thin Air" for our version of how money is created.
History of Economics -- Act I to V - By David Brooks - 3/26/2010 - In NY Times