{he Structures of Freervday Life
HE SPREAD OF TECHNOLOGY:
REVOLUTIQN AND DELAYS
Three great technological innovations
The origins of gunpowder, 385 - Arullery becomes
mobile, 387 - Artillery on board ship, 388 - Argue
buses, muskets, rifles, 392 - Production and costs, 393
Artillery on a world scale, 396 From paper to the
brinting press, 39= - The invention of moveable type,
399 - Printing and history, 301 - The triumph ot the
West: ocean navigation, 4oz - The navies of the Old
orld, go2 — The water routes of the world, joo -
The simple problem of the Atlantic, 409.
I'ransport
Fixed itineraries, 416 - On not exaggerating the im-
portance of transport problems, 419 ~ Water trans:
port, 421 - Antiquated means of transport, 422
Europe, 423 - Low speeds and capacities, 424 - Car-
riage and carriers, 425 - Transport: a brake on the
economy, 428.
Problems of the history of technology
Technology and agriculture, 430 - Technology in it-
self, 431.
MONEY
Imperfect currencies and economies
Primitive currencies, 442 - Barter within monetary
sconomies, 444.
Outside Europe: early economies and metallic money
Japan and the Turkish Empire, 448 - India, 450 -
China, 452.
Some rules of the currency game
Competition between metals, 458 - Flight, saving and
hoarding, 461 - Money of account, 464 - Stocks of
metal and the velocity of monetary circulation. 466
Outside the market economy, 468.
Paper money and instruments of credit
Old practices, 471 - Cash and credit, 474 - Schum-
peter’s diagnosis: everything is money and everything
is credit, 475 - Money and credit: a language, 477.
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