TY - BOOK AU - Peacock, Mark TI - Introducing Money SN - 9780415539869 U1 - 332.4 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group KW - Economics KW - Monetary Policy KW - Money - History N1 - I. Theories 1.Carl Menger and the exchange theory of money 2.The state' or c`hartalist' theory of money pt. II Ancient monies 3.Money in the ancient Near East: the b`eginnings' 4.Money in archaic Greece: evidence from Homeric epic 5.The religious origins of money in H`omeric society' 6.The value of a man: wergeld, accounting and archaic law 7.Coinage and money in classical Greece pt. III Modern monies 8.Monetization in colonial contexts: famine, class and markets in d`evelopment' strategies 9.The moral economy of parallel currencies: the case of local exchange trading systems ER -