Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia
The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to AD 1400
1992
First Published
354
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This substantial work explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BCE to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. The author explores why concepts of money developed unevenly throughout the region. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative structures required to support such a complex economic innovation.
Author
Robert S. Wicks
Author · 2 books
Robert Sigfrid Wicks
