CCR has treated money and economic systems as constituent dimensions of civilizations. In v66, Kazutake Miyahara’s “A Brief History of International Money Supply Systems in Major Civilizations” traces the comparative history of money supply from antiquity through the modern period, including Chinese, Islamic, and European monetary systems.

In v70 and v71, Hisanori Kato’s “Islamic Capitalism: The Muslim Approach to Economic Activities in Indonesia” examines the distinctively Indonesian-Islamic economic system as a civilizational formation distinct from both Western capitalism and traditional Islamic jurisprudence.

In v85, Ashok Kumar Malhotra reviews Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, which includes the Mongol monetary revolution that produced the first paper money and the Pax Mongolica’s contribution to the international monetary system.

In v94, Niv Horesh’s “Toward a World History of Pre-Modern Coin Imitations” examines the cross-civilizational phenomenon of coin imitation as evidence of monetary flows and civilizational interaction. Pre-modern coin imitation, like coin counterfeiting in the modern period, illuminates the geography of monetary circulation.

Source summaries:

  • v66 (Spring 2012) — Kazutake Miyahara, “A Brief History of International Money Supply Systems in Major Civilizations.” (v66)
  • v70 (Spring 2014) — Hisanori Kato, “Islamic Capitalism: The Muslim Approach to Economic Activities in Indonesia.” (v70)
  • v71 (Fall 2014) — Continuation of the Islamic Capitalism discussion. (v71)
  • v85 (Fall 2021) — Ashok Kumar Malhotra reviews Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. (v85)
  • v94 (Spring 2026) — Niv Horesh, “Toward a World History of Pre-Modern Coin Imitations.” (v94)