This narrative traces the full arc of economic and monetary history. It follows the evolution of exchange and production from Mesopotamian clay tablets and Greek silver coinage, through the banking houses of Renaissance Italy, the gold standard and industrial capitalism, the upheavals of the twentieth century, and into today’s age of financial globalization. The series concludes with reflections on artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and the unresolved stresses facing the global economic order.

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