About this title: In this updated version, the author takes the reader from the ancient world through the rise of banking, to the early speculative fevers of the 18th century and the economic challenges of the infant United states. He traces the currents that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve system, the Great Crash and the advent of Keynesian fiscal ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395198438ISBN:0395198437
Description: Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. 500-X-Add Ex-library. Books rated "Acceptable" may have significant wear & tear; may have significant amounts of underlining, highlighting, or notes; may have moderate stains, creases, or tears; may have cracked spines or loose pages; may have the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription; or may be library discards. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good in Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR. GREY CLOTH COVER. INTERIOR PAGES STAMPED "DISCARD" AND HAVE LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Massachusetts
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395198438ISBN:0395198437
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR IS LIGHTLY SOILED. GREY HARD COVER. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
Edition: First (presumed) edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395198438ISBN:0395198437
Description: Very good condition in Very Good-condition jacket. Octavo (8vo). [xii], 324 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor staining and rubbing, with numerous small creases; protected in archival mylar. Endpapers are slightly stained. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Miflin, Boston, USA. x 9.5" 324pp. Index ISBN 0-395-19843-7
Date Published: 1975 6"
ISBN-13:9780395198438ISBN:0395198437
Description: V.G. +-original cloth (dark grey) with gilt and silver gilt embossedlettering to spine and to central panel f. b containing author's initals-top page edge colour-tipped (vermilion)-spine edges limp o/w entirely sound and tight and without inscription-in d.w. -V.G. -lightly rubbed to spine edges with small loss to upper r. corner-with b/w portrait of author to r.c. read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780395198438ISBN:0395198437
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Edition. First Printing. ((10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) 8 vo. 324 pgs. Gray cloth binding with gold and silver decoration to cover and. gold and silver lettering pressed to spine. Edges show absolutely no shelfwear. Corners are sharp and unbumped. Binding is strong and very tight. Text block clean and bright. Binding is stiff, likely never read. No writing or markings in book. Printed DJ is bright and vibrant. with small closed tears and minor ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1975-09-03
ISBN-13:9780395198438ISBN:0395198437
Description: New. New, unread, unused & in perfect condition with no damaged or missing pages. Hardcover without jacket. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1975. Hardcover. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. Includes dust jacket. read more
Description: Good in good dust jacket. The book is in good condition but does show wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 324 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fair. 0395198437 1975 hardcover. No dust jacket. Cover just starting to fray on corners and spine edges. Pencil underlining throughout first 40 pages. Binding is tight. Not ex-library. Reading copy only. read more
"Although not assigned, I read this book alongside a bunch of other Galbraith books for Schweickart's Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism class at Loyola University Chicago. Although a history of common currencies since antiquity and around the globe, it serves as a witty introduction to some basic concepts of economics."
"A fascinating narrative about the history of money, mostly covering the last couple centuries, mostly in the US and Western Europe. Oddly enough this book reminded me very much of Eagleton's Introduction to Literary Criticism, probably because both work through history, pull out various ideas, and then proceed to point out everything that is wrong with them."
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