This book is first of all part of the realistic philosophical tradition applied to the analysis of money and the banking system. It was Nicolas Oresme, a mathematician, physicist, economist and bishop of the fourteenth century who pioneered the matter by writing the first treatise ever written on inflation and, in fact, the first treatise ever devoted to an economic problem. If Oresme deals exclusively with the alteration of coins
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