Economics 201:  Money

Link to slides

• • A Brief History of Money, (James Surowiecki, IEEE Spectrum, June 2012)

  • Once Upon a Dime, New York Federal Reserve

• Notes on Present Value of Future Cash Flows

• Nice explanation by Princeton health economist Uwe Reinhardt

For interest:    

• • Fun graphic history of money (Mint.Com)

  • More history of US money and facts about US money (VisualCapitalist.com)

  • History of money:  England and tally sticks (Tim Taylor, July 12, 2017)

  • Money and the fall of Ancient Rome (VisualCapitalist.com) 

  • What makes medieval money different?   

• A brief guide to impractical currencies

  • Ban the $100 bill!  (Slate, December 9, 2010)

  • "$100 bills are becoming one of America's leading exports", (Washington Post, April 9, 2013, Bradford Plummer)

• What if we went back to the gold standard?  (Slate, November 9, 2010)

  • Greek government bonds are seeing their interest rates jump around

  • NU sells out some of its future Lyrica profits for cash and diversification.  Daily Northwestern, articles by Emily Glazer and Nathalie Tadena, Oct. 10, 2009

  • Ponzi Schemes:  How Bernie Maddoff made off with many people's life savings

  • Money is a bank for criminals, like Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell and Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson (New York Times, August 1, 2010)