Book Reviews

Abstract

Eric Tymoigne of Lewis and Clark College reviews “Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods,” edited by David Fox and Wolfgang Ernst. The Econlit abstract for this book begins: “Thirty-three papers, most previously presented at conferences held in Cambridge in 2011 and 2012 and supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, provide a history of some of the main topics in the monetary law of the civil law and common law systems at different stages of its development over the past eight hundred years, from the Middle Ages until the Bretton Woods agreements of 1944.”