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Viaggi e avventure della moneta: Una conversazione con Thomas J. Sargent e Robert M. Townsend (Intersezioni)

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Che cosa accade quando due economisti del calibro di Thomas J. Sargent e Robert M. Townsend di passaggio a Berkeley decidono d’intervistare un fuoriclasse come Carlo M. Cipolla? Nasce un libro di straordinaria arguzia e intelligenza sulla moneta, la sua storia nel passaggio di mano in mano nel corso dei secoli, dall’età antica a quella moderna. La monetazione, il sistema dei prezzi, credito, banche e banchieri, sono i temi trattati in un dialogo in cui la curiosità si mescola all’ironia e all’attenzione ai particolari meno noti della storia economica. Come venivano pagati i mercenari durante l’impero romano, e quali meccanismi innescava dar loro più monete ma dal minor contenuto di metallo? Come mai nel medioevo mantenere stabile la moneta nazionale portava all’invasione di monete straniere di minor valore? Quali strategie adottarono alcuni paesi per bilanciare la pressione tra sistemi monetari diversi? La storia raccontata con la grazia di rendere piacevoli, leggeri e coinvolgenti i temi più complessi.

166 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2025

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Carlo M. Cipolla

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Carlo M. Cipolla (August 15, 1922 – September 5, 2000) was an Italian economic historian. He was born in Pavia, where he got his academic degree in 1944.
As a young man, Cipolla wanted to teach history and philosophy in an Italian high school, and therefore enrolled at the political science faculty at Pavia University. Whilst a student there, thanks to professor Franco Borlandi, a specialist in Medieval economic history, he discovered his passion for economic history. Subsequently he studied at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.

Cipolla obtained his first teaching post in economic history in Catania at the age of 27. This was to be the first stop in a long academic career in Italy (Venice, Turin, Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Fiesole) and abroad. In 1953 Cipolla left for the United States as a Fulbright fellow and in 1957 became a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Two years later he obtained a full professorship.
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