Robinson Crusoe’s Money; Or, the Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community
by David Ames Wells
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898
- Title
- Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community
- Credits
- Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HG: Social sciences: Finance
- Subject
- Currency question -- United States
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40429
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40429
- Release Date
- August 6, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Preface.
- 3.Contents.
- 4.Illustrations.
- 5.The Three Great Bags of Money.
- 6.A New Social Order of Things.
- 7.The Period of Barter.
- 8.How They Invented Money.
- 9.How the People on the Island and Elsewhere Learned Wisdom.
- 10.Gold, and How they Came to Use It.
- 11.How the Islanders Determined to be an Honest and Free People.
- 12.How the People on the Island Came to Use Currency in the Place of Money.
- 13.War with the Cannibals, and What Came of It.
- 14.After the War.
- 15.The New Millennium.
- 16.Getting Sober.
- 17.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections
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