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Robinson Crusoe's Money; / or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community

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The narrative follows a remote island community whose exchange systems evolve from direct barter to the invention and adoption of money and finally to paper currency. Through staged episodes it clarifies basic concepts of utility, value, price, credit, and capital, and tests popular fiscal proposals by dramatizing their practical effects. Episodes trace adoption of gold, banking, issues of inflation and deflation, war-driven finance, booms and failures, and social disputes over honesty and monetary policy. Marginal notes and illustrations connect allegory to historical examples while keeping the exposition accessible and practical.

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Scans for this book are available from the Internet Archive (copy 1, 1, 3, 4).

A 1919 Dutch translation of this work is also available from Project Gutenberg as Het Geld van Robinson Crusoe. The illustrations from that edition have been re-used for this ebook.

Related Library of Congress catalog page: 06019596.

Related Open Library catalog page (for source): OL24186367M.

Related Open Library catalog page (for work): OL1488107W.

Related WorldCat catalog page: 1430956.

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