Timely Cash: Lessons From 2,500 Years of Giving People Money

Oxford (United Kingdom): Oxford University Press, 2024.

English

384 p.

9780191994982

Cash transfers, or the provision of money to people by the state, reach hundreds of millions of people worldwide. But when did these transfers start, and how did they spread over countries and centuries? What did past practices look like, and how did they evolve? Why, despite compelling evidence, are policymakers sometimes skeptical about cash transfers? Have similar concerns been raised in the past, and how were they resolved? Timely Cash explores these questions by tracing cash transfers over history, codifying diversity in experiences, and identifying recurrent patterns. In doing so, the volume may help illuminate the roots of modern cash transfer dilemmas and reveal how the past can offer surprising lessons for contemporary debates.

Electronic ed.
Available on OverDrive.

ELR 1332

eng