Name: Money in the Pre-Industrial World:Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes
ISBN: 9781315655383

Book

ABSTRACT

The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: With Special Reference to the Low Countries and England

chapter 2|11 pages

From Aurelian to Diocletian: Financing Imperial Recovery by Coinage Debasements and Fiduciary Currencies

chapter 3|17 pages

The Making of a Gold Standard: The Ducat and Its Offspring, 1284-2001

chapter 4|23 pages

Debasement of the Coinage and Its Effects on Exchange Rates and the Economy: In England in the 1540s, and in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands in the 1480s

Money in the Pre-Industrial World

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: With Special Reference to the Low Countries and England

chapter 2|11 pages

From Aurelian to Diocletian: Financing Imperial Recovery by Coinage Debasements and Fiduciary Currencies

chapter 3|17 pages

The Making of a Gold Standard: The Ducat and Its Offspring, 1284-2001

chapter 4|23 pages

Debasement of the Coinage and Its Effects on Exchange Rates and the Economy: In England in the 1540s, and in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands in the 1480s

chapter 5|9 pages

The Amsterdam Wisselbank's Innovations in the Monetary Sphere: The Role of 'Bank Money'

chapter 6|14 pages

Silver in England 1600-1800: Coinage Outputs and Bullion Exports from the Records of the London Tower Mint and the London Company of Goldsmiths

chapter 7|18 pages

The Burdens of Tradition: Debasements, Coinage Circulation and Mercantilist Public Policy Debates in Seventeenth-Century Aragon

chapter 8|17 pages

Money or Export Commodity for Asia? American Silver in the Markets of Mexico, Castile and Amsterdam from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

chapter 9|15 pages

Cacao Beans in Colonial México: Small Change in a Global Economy

chapter 10|20 pages

Precious Metals, Debasements and Cowrie Shells in the Medieval Indian Monetary Systems, c. 1200-1575