This month China’s central bank revealed that its digital currency, the e-CNY, had been used for 7trn-yuan-worth of transactions in its short life—an amount equivalent to almost $1trn. China is not ...

The history of women and money is one of unequal standards and more recent developments than you might expect. I had several conversations with some friends of mine – female financial leaders who ...

AI, like money before it, is fundamentally a coordination technology that's reorganizing society, but unlike money's gradual evolution with institutional safeguards built through centuries of struggle ...

Now here is a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.” For David McWilliams, an ...

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. MONEY PREDATES history. Before the ancient Mesopotamians ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

Throughout history, control over money has been one of the most powerful levers of state authority. Rulers have long understood that whoever issues and manages the currency also commands the economy ...

When Iran began demanding payment in exchange for safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it offered the option to pay in cryptocurrency. Likewise, the shadowy network of tankers that have smuggled ...