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A history of money and banking

How we got here — from grain receipts to floating currencies, and the lessons that keep repeating.

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16 lessons · ~173 min

Before coinage: debt, tally and the ledger societies

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Coinage, and the state's discovery of seigniorage

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Medieval banking, bills of exchange and the Italian innovation

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The Dutch and English financial revolutions

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Central banks: the Bank of England and the birth of a model

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The classical gold standard and the discipline it imposed

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The First World War and the end of the old order

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The interwar years and the return-to-gold mistake

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The Great Depression: causes, policy failures and lessons

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Bretton Woods: designing a postwar monetary system

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The Nixon shock and the move to fiat

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The Great Inflation and the Volcker disinflation

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The rise of Swiss banking and the franc as a haven

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The euro: design, crisis and unfinished architecture

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The long decline in interest rates, 1980 to 2020

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Money after 2008: QE, and the change in the policy toolkit

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