Chapter 1 The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial Innovation: Introduction and Overview

Chapter 2 Silver as a Financial Tool in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Chapter 3 War and Peace, Imitation and Innovation, Backwardness and Development: The Beginnings of Coinage in Ancient Greece and Lydia

Chapter 4 The Emergence and Spread of Coins in Ancient India

Chapter 5 The Emergence and Spread of Coins in China from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period

Chapter 6 The Changing Pattern of Achaemenid Persian Royal Coinage

Chapter 7 The Spread of Coins in the Hellenistic World

Chapter 9 The Provision of Stable Moneys by Florence and Venice, and North Italian Financial Innovations in the Renaissance Period

Chapter 10 Monetary and Financial Innovations in Flanders, Antwerp, London and Hamburg: Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century

Chapter 11 The Bank of Amsterdam Through the Lens of Monetary Competition

Chapter 12 Monetary and Financial Innovation in the Spanish Empire: Lights and Shadows

Chapter 13 The Emergence and Innovations of the Eurodollar Money and Bond Market: The Role of Openness and Competition Between States