……债务，我认为这才是现代意义上的货币，与资产（比如战俘营里的香烟或黄金）相对，它来自国家。这方面的例子我推荐 Christine Desan 的《Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism》。另外，会计（甚至可能还有数字和文字！）最初就是作为在美索不达米亚登记债务的方式被发明出来的，按今天……
…debt, that I would argue is the modern conception of money, as opposite to an asset (like cigarettes in a prisoners camp or gold), comes from the state. For examples of this I would recommend the book "Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism" by Christine Desan. Also, accounting (and maybe even numbers and writing!) were invented initially as a way as registering debt in Mesopotamia by what today…
……我还没到能靠谱推荐这个主题的书的地步，所以这话你姑且听之，但我觉得 Christine Desan 的《Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism》里对英国货币演变的历史性（且带观点的）梳理很有意思 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21492062-making-money 我很喜欢里面关于金融机构如何演变的这句话：“它是即兴发生的，……”
…knowledgeable enough to properly recommend a book on the subject so take this with a grain of salt, but I thought the historical (and opinionated) overview of the evolution of English money in Christine Desan's "Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism" was interesting https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21492062-making-money I like this quote about how financial institutions evolved: "It happened improvisationally,…
……债务，我认为这才是现代意义上的货币，与资产（比如战俘营里的香烟或黄金）相对，它来自国家。这方面的例子我推荐 Christine Desan 的《Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism》。另外，会计（甚至可能还有数字和文字！）最初就是作为在美索不达米亚登记债务的方式被发明出来的，按今天……
…debt, that I would argue is the modern conception of money, as opposite to an asset (like cigarettes in a prisoners camp or gold), comes from the state. For examples of this I would recommend the book "Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism" by Christine Desan. Also, accounting (and maybe even numbers and writing!) were invented initially as a way as registering debt in Mesopotamia by what today…
……我还没到能靠谱推荐这个主题的书的地步，所以这话你姑且听之，但我觉得 Christine Desan 的《Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism》里对英国货币演变的历史性（且带观点的）梳理很有意思 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21492062-making-money 我很喜欢里面关于金融机构如何演变的这句话：“它是即兴发生的，……”
…knowledgeable enough to properly recommend a book on the subject so take this with a grain of salt, but I thought the historical (and opinionated) overview of the evolution of English money in Christine Desan's "Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism" was interesting https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21492062-making-money I like this quote about how financial institutions evolved: "It happened improvisationally,…