Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 194: "Two Tally Stick-Style Promises That Saved The Economies Of China And Ireland"
This is the bonus show for Episode 194! (Tally Marks)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topics of a bamboo currency that got China through its most chaotic modern century, and written promises that weathered a six month banking lockdown in Ireland.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
Bamboo Tally / Xie Tang Shui Shé (Numista.com)
bamboo tally, 1913 (The British Museum)
Bamboo tally, 1920s (Google Arts & Culture / The British Museum)
Fall of the Qing Dynasty (History.com)
The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable (Harvard Business Review)
What tally sticks tell us about how money works (BBC News / 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy)
The Selkie-folk (OrkneyJar.com)
The Kelpie (Historic-UK.com)
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