Haven't read this all yet, but the capsule reviews of the "money" books are super useful to me. The Innes/Knapp divide was a real Aha for me, a distinction for which I'd only had a vague and somewhat muddy understanding. Related, the (lengthy!) linked Colin Drumm review of Eich is excellent, and judicious in a way that I (probably unfairly) don't expect of him.
Oh and I forgot to ask, just curious: do any of them touch on Denise Schmandt-Besserat's amazing work on early counting tokens, their evolution into tallies on tablets, the emergence of abstract numbers, and then (she doesn't tackle this) the emergence of generalized arbitrary units of account (often retaining the same names as commodity units from which they emerged and were generalized)?
Haven't read this all yet, but the capsule reviews of the "money" books are super useful to me. The Innes/Knapp divide was a real Aha for me, a distinction for which I'd only had a vague and somewhat muddy understanding. Related, the (lengthy!) linked Colin Drumm review of Eich is excellent, and judicious in a way that I (probably unfairly) don't expect of him.
Oh and I forgot to ask, just curious: do any of them touch on Denise Schmandt-Besserat's amazing work on early counting tokens, their evolution into tallies on tablets, the emergence of abstract numbers, and then (she doesn't tackle this) the emergence of generalized arbitrary units of account (often retaining the same names as commodity units from which they emerged and were generalized)?