Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia : The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to AD 1400
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| Title: | Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia : The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to AD 1400 |
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| Description: | This substantial work explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BCE to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. The author explores why concepts of money developed unevenly throughout the region. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative structures required to support such a complex economic innovation. |
| Authors: | Robert S. Wicks |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Money--History.--Southeast Asia, Indigenous peoples--History.--Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia--Commerce--History |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This substantial work explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BCE to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. The author explores why concepts of money developed unevenly throughout the region. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative structures required to support such a complex economic innovation. |
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| ISBN: | 9780877277101 9781501719479 |
