{"product_id":"easy-money-american-puritans-and-the-invention-of-modern-currency-9780226825106","title":"Easy Money  American Puritans and the Invention","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEasy Money\u003c\/i\u003e provides an engrossing narrative account of this lesser-known crucible. Although scholarship about the first American colonies could fill the Mayflower, Mr. Goldberg’s chronicle is the first book-length attempt to explain why a defining concept in our global financial system emerged within a desperate theocracy on the fringes of the British Empire.\" * The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Easy Money\u003c\/i\u003e, grounded in a doctoral dissertation and nine publications, will become an instant classic. Lucid, arresting, and free of jargon, it is accessible to general readers and scholars . . . Essential.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEasy Money\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to North Atlantic monetary history...The book pulls off a neat trick by being very engaging for economic historians and at the same time accessible to a broad audience.\" * EH.Net *\u003cbr\u003e\"Paper money and legal tender clauses did not emerge in a vacuum. \u003ci\u003eEasy Money\u003c\/i\u003e tells how exigencies, forethoughts, and experiments combined to make an early paper money sustainable and valuable—at least for a while. Full of insights about the 21st century brought from carefully interpreting 17th century events, \u003ci\u003eEasy Money\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating mixture of American political, economic, and intellectual history that is sharply focused on how paper money was invented and implemented.\" -- Thomas Sargent | New York University | recipient of 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics\u003cbr\u003e“Skillfully assembling a large body of evidence in this ambitious work, Goldberg has woven a complex, yet accessible narrative about an important event in monetary history, which tackles important questions such as: How does money evolve? What explains the timing, location, and form of monetary invention? And why Massachusetts?\u003ci\u003e”\u003c\/i\u003e -- Jane Knodell | University of Vermont\u003cbr\u003e“It is often said that money is a social construct. But few of us take the time to painstakingly chronicle the political, economic, and social processes by which it is constructed. In \u003ci\u003eEasy Money\u003c\/i\u003e, Dror Goldberg traces the story of modern legal tender currency back to its 17th century Transatlantic roots and the upstart colony of Massachusetts. It is a story of war, politics, law, religion, and circumstance in which necessity reveals itself as the mother of monetary invention. It is also a story with important lessons for the future of money.” -- Dan Awrey | Cornell University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEasy Money\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one of history’s great inventions in a depth that no one has done before. The outlines of this story have been known for quite a while, but no one has explained in Goldberg’s rich detail how the 1690-1692 innovation happened when and where it did.” -- Richard Sylla | New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Introductions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Introduction to the Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Money and Its Inventions: Theoretical Considerations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. England in the Late Sixteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. English Developments, 1584–1692\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. The Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Before 1630: Harvesters of Money\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. The Puritan Exodus, 1629–1640: General Features\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Massachusetts Takes the Monetary Lead, 1630–1640\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. A New Hope, 1640–1660\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. The Empire Strikes Back, 1660–1686\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Governments and Paper Money Projects, 1685–1689\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. The Massachusetts Legislator: The Case of Elisha Hutchinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. The Return of the General Court, 1689–1690\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary of Part II\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. A Monetary Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. The Legal Tender Law, 1690\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. Aftermath, 1691–1692\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Back to England’s Financial Revolution, 1692–1700\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Analysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577247404375,"sku":"9780226825106","price":41.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226825106.jpg?v=1746094522","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/easy-money-american-puritans-and-the-invention-of-modern-currency-9780226825106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}