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Welcome to A History of Capitalism, a narrative history podcast about how capitalism as we know it came to be. Tune in biweekly for an epic story spanning from the Black Death to Black Mondays and everything in between.
Money. You can't live without it these days. In this episode we find out how money rose to its dominant position by the year 1400 CE, how money's limitations created banking, and how banking developed during these early years.
Episode Bibliography:
Money and Credit in Indian History from Early Medieval Times edited by Amiya Kumar Bagchi The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution: Usury, Rentes, and Negotiability" from The International History Review by John H. Munron The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History by Paul Yakov Smith and Richard von Glahn
A History of Capitalism
Welcome to A History of Capitalism, a narrative history podcast about how capitalism as we know it came to be. Tune in biweekly for an epic story spanning from the Black Death to Black Mondays and everything in between.
