Easy Money

Dror Goldberg is a senior faculty member in the Department of Management and Economics at the Open University of Israel.

• Preface  Part I. IntroductionsChapter 1. Introduction to the BookChapter 2. Money and Its Inventions: Theoretical ConsiderationsChapter 3. England in the Late Sixteenth CenturyChapter 4. English Developments, 1584–1692  Part II. The AtlanticChapter 5. Before 1630: Harvesters of MoneyChapter 6. The Puritan Exodus, 1629–1640: General FeaturesChapter 7. Massachusetts Takes the Monetary Lead, 1630–1640Chapter 8. A New Hope, 1640–1660Chapter 9. The Empire Strikes Back, 1660–1686Chapter 10. Governments and Paper Money Projects, 1685–1689Chapter 11. The Massachusetts Legislator: The Case of Elisha HutchinsonChapter 12. The Return of the General Court, 1689–1690Summary of Part II  Part III. A Monetary RevolutionChapter 13. The Legal Tender Law, 1690Chapter 14. Aftermath, 1691–1692Chapter 15. Back to England’s Financial Revolution, 1692–1700Chapter 16. AnalysisChapter 17. ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

"Easy Money provides an engrossing narrative account of this lesser-known crucible. Although scholarship about the first American colonies could fill the Mayflower, Mr. Goldberg’s chronicle is the first book-length attempt to explain why a defining concept in our global financial system emerged within a desperate theocracy on the fringes of the British Empire."