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Financial Markets
1The Invention of Money2The Birth of Banking3The First Securities Markets4Bubbles, Manias, and Crashes5Central Banking and the Lender of Last Resort6The Bond Market and Sovereign Debt7When Great Powers Default8Foreign Exchange and Currency Systems9The Corporation as Legal Technology10Private vs. Public Markets11Asset Classes and Portfolio Theory12Credit Cycles and Financial Instability13Arbitrage, Efficiency, and Market Structure14The Future of Finance15Environmental Economics: Pricing the Priceless16Case Study: Who Owns the Conversation?17Case Study: The Century Bond and the Three-Year GPU
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The Invention of Money

Everything you learned about the origins of money is probably wrong. The barter myth serves ideological purposes, obscuring how money has always been a tool of political power.

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