In their latest issue, The Economist covers Adam Brzezinski’s recent publication “Understanding Money Using Historical Evidence”. In it, Adam Brzezinski and co-authors review lessons to be learned from monetary history that are relevant for current topics of policy relevance.

Read the paper "Understanding Money Using Historical Evidence" here.

Read the Economist article "What the history of money tells you about crypto’s future" here.

Link to the other papers referred to in The Economist article:

The Vagaries of the Sea: Evidence on the Real Effects of Money from Maritime Disasters in the Spanish Empire | The Review of Economics and Statistics | MIT Press
Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 117, No 4 (uchicago.edu)