History of Coinage

Overview

Curriculum

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Introduction
1.1 - Introduction to the History of Money
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The emergence of exchanges
2.1 - From Australopithecus to Modern Man
2.2 - From Hunter-Gatherer to Farmer: The Dawn of Civilization
2.3 - Neolithic trade
2.4 - The formation of the first cities and the emergence of writing
2.5 - The role of Sumerian tablets
2.6 - Elite control on Sumerian tablets
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Economy and money in ancient civilizations
3.1 - The great civilizations of the Bronze Age
3.2 - Economic organization in Mesopotamia
3.3 - Economic and monetary organization in ancient Egypt
3.4 - Sign currency and economic and monetary organization in ancient China
3.5 - Societal and economic organization in antiquity
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The birth of minted money
4.1 - The emergence of coins
4.2 - Lydians and Persians
4.3 - Institutional intervention and the first coins
4.4 - Parts manufacturing
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Different theories on the emergence of money
5.1 - Theories on the emergence of money and its various definitions
5.2 - The emergence of money for classical economists
5.3 - The myth of barter
5.4 - The emergence of money through debt-money
5.5 - The spontaneous emergence of money
5.6 - The anthropological vision of the emergence of money
5.7 - Register unification
5.8 - Unification through the monetary premium
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Different definitions of money
6.1 - Money vs currency vs monnaie vs argent vs devise
6.2 - Saifedean Ammous's definition
6.3 - Means of payment and liberatory value
6.4 - Debt-money vs. commodity-money
6.5 - Modern Monetary Theory
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The fall and rebirth of money
7.1 - Greek coins
7.2 - The impact of currency in Greece
7.3 - The Roman Republic
7.4 - The Roman Empire
7.5 - Links between monetary debasement and inflation: from causes to consequences
7.6 - The fall of the Roman Empire
7.7 - The Dark Ages and the Middle Ages
7.8 - The renaissance
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The seizure of money by the State
8.1 - The evolution of the world's reserve currencies
8.2 - The emergence of central banks
8.3 - The road to the fiat system
8.4 - The history of money bubbles
8.5 - Money and violence
8.6 - The economic consequences of organized violence
8.7 - A very short history of finance
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Final section
9.1 - Evaluate this course
9.2 - Conclusion