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How We Learned to Love “Free” Markets
Rebecca L. Spang reviews Jacob Soll’s “Free Market: The History of an Idea” and Stefan Eich’s “The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes.”...
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Rebecca L. Spang
Rebecca L. Spang is Ruth N. Halls Professor of History at Indiana University and currently a Guggenheim Fellow (2022–23) and a National Fellow of New America (2023). Her most recent book is Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2015).
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China and the Money Question
Rebecca L. Spang looks at three new books about Chinese monetary history....
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