Reviews for Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921-1929

The average rating for Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921-1929 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-21 00:00:00 Vincent Madrigal This book is maybe the densest thing I've ever read. It is to Marilyn Strathern what Strathern is to everything else. When you are reading it, time and space bend under its weight. It takes an hour or more to get through 15 pages. My undergrads hated hated hated it--wanted to shoot it into space is one of the more printable ideas--yet three weeks later it keeps coming up in class. It is a weird sort of density--not a Spivaked-up poseur density but a near isomorphism of words and ideas. Spare spare writing stuffed to the gills with ideas. Frankly of all the exchange theory stuff I've been wading through since the summer, this book is head and shoulders if not torsos above the rest. The chapter on conversions between various monetary regimes on the Congo river system in pre and early colonial Africa is on the short list of best things I've ever read. That and some the stuff on quantity as quality.... Still reading it but already impressed.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-01 00:00:00 Tiffany Pastula A bit cryptic but help me a lot.