The Story of Money

xiv, 411 pp. Author won 1933 Nobel Peace Prize. The history of money from antiquity to the present time! Some of the chapter headings: What is wrong with gold? Have banks the power to make money safe? The problem of Stock Exchange speculation. The great monetary problem: what the experts say? The Federal Reserve system and its critics! A plain story for the everyday reader in simple, authoritative language. This book helps you to understand the problem of today.Norman Angel was an English economist and worked toward international peace, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1933. Though most of his works were on monetary theory, banking, and finance, this book, was a book clearly written to educate laymen on the history of money throughout time. Angell is most widely remembered for his 1909 pamphlet, Europe's Optical Illusion, which was published the following year (and many years thereafter) as the book, The Great Illusion (The anti-war film La Grande Illusion took its title from his pamphlet). The thesis of the book was that the integration of the economies of European countries had grown to such a degree that war between them would be entirely futile, making militarism obsolete...Angell was also the designer of something called The Money Game, a visual method of teaching schoolchildren the fundamentals of finance and banking. An interesting book from an interesting figure in history.