H. Schurtz, An Outline of the Origins of Money, Edited by Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt, With a Foreword by Michael Hudson, The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

When he died in 1903 at the age of only 39, Heinrich Schurtz was already a prominent social scientist. The author of important monographs, Schurtz was considered as one of the most authoritative German ethnologists and the founder of economic anthropology in Germany. Having earned his doctorate at Leipzig University in 1893, he became an ethnographic research assistant at the Bremen Museum of Natural History, Anthropology, and Commerce, a position he alternated with teaching at his university. Among Schurtz’s extensive works, An Outline of the Origins of Money, published in Germany in 1898, stands out as one of his most significant volumes. Chicago University Press recently reprinted the book with a preface by Prof. Michael Hudson and an extensive, brilliant introduction by Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt, the driving forces behind the commendable editorial project