An Outline of the Origins of Money

2025/08/17 by Jan Greitens · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Economic Theory and Policy

paper · doi:10.1080/09672567.2025.2547157

openalex publication_date 2025/08/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

A classic work of German-language anthropological scholarship on money has been made available in English thanks to Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt. First published in 1898, Heinrich Schurtz’s bo...

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• A review of Heinrich Schurtz's book, translated and annotated, with an introduction by Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt (An Outline of the Origins of Money), by Jan Greitens doi.org/10.1080/0967... [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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