La Monnaie, Personnage Historique

摘要

Money is an important subject, not only in the field of financial history, but in a wider range of social sciences. Big names cited by Catherine Vuillermot in the introduction to this volume demonstrate the breadth of consideration of the issue: Aristotle is followed by Jean Bodin and Irving Fisher on the functions of money, David Ricardo and Thomas Tooke on the monetary debates of the nineteenth century, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman on banks and credit, and of course historians like Fernand Braudel and Marc Bloch. Money matters, therefore, but how?