The contribution is divided into four parts. The first contextualizes the issue of alternative currencies from a methodological and chronological point of view. The second questions the real diffusion of metal money and highlights the problems deriving from the presence of accounting almost always in money of account. The third concerns how, in a world where alternative currencies were very relevant, value was attributed to goods used in trade or to pay for services. The fourth underlines the consequences of the presence of robust economic logics even in the pre-industrial age. In the final part, after underlining the critical issues of the approach adopted in the reconstruction of wages and living standards, alternative solutions are proposed that are more in line with the pre-industrial reality that we want to investigate.
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4587-8231
Chapter Title
Tavola rotonda
Authors
Luca Mocarelli
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0347-0.34
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Mezzi di scambio non monetari. Merci e servizi come monete alternative nelle economie dei secoli XIII-XVIII / Alternative currencies. Commodities and services as exchange currencies in the monetarized economies of the 13th to 18th centuries
Editors
Angela Orlandi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
592
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0347-0
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0346-3
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0347-0
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0348-7
Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
Series E-ISSN
2975-1195