Main content

The Essay It Talks Episodes

Back up to: The Essay

  1. Paper Money

    5/5 Dr Helen Wang discusses the development of paper money.

  2. Coins

    4/5 Edith Hall argues that the first coins gave individuals more freedom than ever before.

  3. Standards

    3/5 Exploring the creation of the first international and cross-boundary standards for money.

  4. Episode 2

    2/5 Focusing on the first banks - in Babylonia around 3,000 BC.

  5. Cows and Shells

    1/5 Keith Hart on the origins of money as part of an economy of living persons and things.