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

by David Ames Wells

EN·~2 hours·14 chapters

Chapters

14 total

Preface.

3:05

Illustrations.

1:11

Robinson Crusoe’s Money. - Chapter I. - The Three Great Bags of Money.

6:25

Chapter III. - The Period of Barter.

7:21

Chapter IV. - How They Invented Money.

11:02

Chapter V. - How the People on the Island and Elsewhere Learned Wisdom.

17:10

Chapter VI. - Gold, and How they Came to Use It.

20:12

Chapter VII. - How the Islanders Determined to be an Honest and Free People.

4:53

Chapter VIII. - How the People on the Island Came to Use Currency in the Place of Money.

5:11

Chapter IX. - War with the Cannibals, and What Came of It.

15:39

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

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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2012-08-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40429

Subjects

Money Currency question -- United States HG

About the author

David Ames Wells

1828–1898

A leading American economist and public thinker of the late 19th century, he wrote clearly and forcefully about taxation, tariffs, and the changing industrial economy. His work helped shape debates over free trade, public finance, and economic reform in the United States.

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