Origins+of+Money+Seminar


 * May 17, 2012, 6:00 pm., Discovery Room of the Student Union (E 163), Wright State University, Dayton, OH **

**How Money Came About: Temples, Taxes or Traders?** Seminar with [|Alla Semenova], Assistant Professor of Economics, Dickinson College [|Presentation]


 * Readings:**

Semenova, Alla. 2011. //The Origins of Money: Evaluating Chartalist and Metallist Theories in the Context of Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia//, PhD dissert. University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri. http://www.cfeps.org/pubs/wp-pdf/WP55-Semenova.pdf

Semenova, A. 2011. “Would You Barter With God? Why Holy Debts and not Profane Markets Created Money,” //American Journal of Economics and Sociology// 70.2: 376–400.

Cosponsored by the Departments of Religion, Philosophy and Classics and the Department of Economics, Wright State University The seminar is part of the //Pisediscalzi Lecture Series.// Dr. Nicholas Pisediscalzi was the founding chair of the Religion Department and a life-long student of the dialectic of Religion and Culture—especially Art, literature, and Politics.