The Encyclopedia of Money (2nd edition)

Liza Minnelli may have sung in the film Cabaret about money making the world go around. However, as we all saw in the autumn of 2008, money can also bring everything to a shuddering halt as banks around the world failed, stock prices tumbled, companies went out of business and countries went bankrupt.

This encyclopedia sets out to explain the development of money from historical, political and theoretical contexts using a wide range of events, policies and regulations. It does this by means of 350 alphabetically arranged entries covering all aspects of money and currencies from around the world. The...