the history of money from sandstone to cyberspace
in his most widely appealing book yet one of todays leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all purpose electronic cash card . 320 pp . author tour . national radio publicity . 25000 print . p from the hardcover edition .
traces the historical evolution of humankinds relationship with money from ancient times to the present day revolutionary transformation in the meaning and use of money as represented by the electronic cash card and discusses the implications of such changes