The Origins of Money: Previous Theories

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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2015 · Education

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Christine Desan talks about previous theories, such as the ‘convergence story’, on the emergence of money, which her book unsettles. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198709572.do

Christine A. Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She teaches about the international monetary system, the constitutional law of money, constitutional history, political economy, and legal theory. She is the co-founder of Harvard's Program on the Study of Capitalism; with its co-director, Professor Sven Beckert (History), she has taught the Program's anchoring research seminar, the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, since 2005. Desan's research explores money as a legal and political project, one that configures the market it sets out to measure.

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