Markets as history. Bubbles, crashes, and the institutional panics that recur in new clothing. Described as an archivist would describe them.
The South Sea Bubble through the 2008 collapse. Not as Greek tragedy, not as Bloomberg post-mortem, but as archival records, with what's in the footnotes.
The Dutch tulip bubble of 1636–37, reconstructed from contract ledgers and the revisionist scholarship of Anne Goldgar. The textbook story is wrong in most of its details.
Yap stone money, Siberian tea bricks, cowrie shells, Roman salt, squirrel pelts, Chinese knife money, and colonial Virginia tobacco notes. Money has never been backed by its material.