Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia: The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to AD 1400

by Robert S. Wicks

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877277109
• ISBN13: 9780877277101
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher