
Over at Baseline Scenario,
James Kwak, an associate professor at the
University of Connecticut School of Law, has posted
a thoughtful review of
Making Money: Coin, Currency and the Coming of Capitalism, by
HLS’s Christine Desan. “It’s a fascinating story,” Kwak writes, “full of both meticulous historical detail and compelling conceptual arguments about the relationship between forms of currency, political authority, and the creation of the modern state.”