Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850

by Richard T. Gray

Book Overview

In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany from an agrarian or proto-industrial economy to a capitalist industrial economy, which was paralleled by a shift from the exchange of money in coin to the use of paper currencies, occurred simultaneously with an efflorescence of German-language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988371
• ISBN13: 9780295988375
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"