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Money from the Very Beginning

In: Money Matters

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  • Luis Angeles

    (University of Glasgow)

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Money can be a nebulous concept, the more so the further back in time we research its origins. Money only becomes recognizable to our eyes with the invention of coinageCoinage, sometime towards the end of the seventh century BC. Coins, after all, are objects universally accepted as a means of payment—our usual definition of money. In this chapter, however, I will encourage you to think not so much in terms of money, but in terms of monetary systems. A monetary system may be loosely defined as a set of arrangements which societies have in place to measure the value of goods and services and to carry out exchange.

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  • Luis Angeles, 2022. "Money from the Very Beginning," Springer Books, in: Money Matters, chapter 0, pages 17-27, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-95516-8_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95516-8_3
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