Notes

Introduction

1. www.springerlink.com/content/713j0q7333620tp2/.

Chapter 2

1. www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10521/budgetprojections.pdf.

2. www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Treasury-China-Sheds-US/2011/06/06/id/398915.

Chapter 3

1. Meir Kohn, “The Determination of Exchange Rates,” in The Origins of Western Economic Success: Commerce, Finance, and Government in Preindustrial Europe, Chap. 4, p. 31; available at www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/Papers/99-04.pdf.

2. Edwin S. Hunt, The Medieval Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

3. C. Desimoni, quoted in L. T. Belgrano, Della vita privata dei Genovesi, 2nd ed. (Genoa, 1875). The author indicates that the silver ducat experienced ...

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