How did medieval Europe’s money system really work? While gold and silver coins were important, credit-based money systems ...

This month China’s central bank revealed that its digital currency, the e-CNY, had been used for 7trn-yuan-worth of transactions in its short life—an amount equivalent to almost $1trn. China is not ...

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. MONEY PREDATES history. Before the ancient Mesopotamians ...

Now here is a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.” For David McWilliams, an ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

AI, like money before it, is fundamentally a coordination technology that's reorganizing society, but unlike money's gradual evolution with institutional safeguards built through centuries of struggle ...

The history of women and money is one of unequal standards and more recent developments than you might expect. I had several conversations with some friends of mine – female financial leaders who ...