World Policy On Air, Ep. 95: "The Currency of History"

from World Policy Institute · host David Alpern

From bartering to coins, paper, and virtual currency, economic transfers have taken many forms over the centuries to facilitate finance and trade. Yet, as historian Rebecca L. Spang explains on today's episode of World Policy On Air, the narrative tying changes in money to technological progress obscures the political aspects of currency and the inequality it produces. World Policy On Air Archive

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